Helps if I send it to the group...
And Kent, I didn't post it originally because I figured the other guy
was still working on his script. Besides, I didn't think it'd be that
far fetched for you to assume I was using something like "while s[0] ==
' ':"
Andrew James wrote:
> I'm always nervous about sharing my code... It's like being back in
> high school, I don't want the other kids to laugh at me. Anyway,
> running that in IDLE with a string such as '
> testing. ' Will print ' testing' at the
> end of the first (second, really) loop.
>
> def strip(s):
> while s[0].isspace() == True:
> while s[-1].isspace() == True:
> s = s[:-2]
> print s
> s = s[1:]
> print s
>
> test = raw_input('Enter a string with plenty of leading and trailing
> whitespace:')
>
> strip(test)
>
> Alan Gauld wrote:
>> "Andrew James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>>
>>
>>> string containing a single space ' ' but even using s[-1].isspace() I
>>> lose punctuation marks. Any idea why that's happening?
>>>
>>
>> care to show us what you are doing?
>>
>>
>>>>> ';'.isspace()
>>>>>
>> False
>>
>> So puntuation should not show up as true...
>>
>> Alan G.
>>
>>
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