"Christopher Spears" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I decided to post a solution to this problem that uses > regular expressions. > > def my_strip(s): > remove_leading = re.sub(r'^\s+','',s) > remove_trailing = > re.sub(r'\s+$','',remove_leading) > new_s = remove_trailing > return new_s
You can replace the last two lines with return remove_trailing There is no need for new_s (In fact you could just return the last sub result and dispense with remove_training too!) Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
