And as soon as I send it again I realise a pretty stupid error. The two
loops shouldn't be nested.
Andrew James wrote:
> 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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