> Thanks to all respondents, Steve Holden
> is right, I expected more than I should
> have.
Others have explained why all your examples work as they should.
>From your exmaples, it seems like you would like strip to
remove the leading and trailing characters from EVERY LINE in
your string. This ca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mar 2, 11:45 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I suspect what you need is the .replace() method.
>
> The information's there-- the word 'contiguous' might clear it up a
> bit.
>
>>> Return a copy of the string with the
>>> leading and trailing characters
On Mar 2, 11:45 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I suspect what you need is the .replace() method.
The information's there-- the word 'contiguous' might clear it up a
bit.
> > Return a copy of the string with the
> > leading and trailing characters removed.
> > The chars argument is
Colin J. Williams wrote:
> The Library Reference has
> strip( [chars])
>
> Return a copy of the string with the
> leading and trailing characters removed.
> The chars argument is a string
> specifying the set of characters to be
> removed. If omitted or None, the chars
> argument defaults to
"Colin J. Williams" schrieb
> The Library Reference has
> strip( [chars])
>
> Return a copy of the string with the
> leading and trailing characters removed.
It's "leading and trailing", not
"leading, trailing or embedded".
>>> "xxxaaaxxx".strip("x")
'aaa'
>>> "xxxaaax
Colin J. Williams wrote:
> Return a copy of the string with the
> leading and trailing characters removed.
> Only the last two examples below behave
> as expected.
They all looks OK to me.
> [Dbg]>>> 'ab$%\n\rcd'.strip('%')
> 'ab$%\n\rcd'
No "%" at the beginning or end o
