[issue13427] string comparison with ==

[Alan]

Alan <alan.beccati at gmail.com> added the comment:

Using repr highlights the issue which lies in the behaviour of str.strip() which does not strip away null spaces as I would have expected:

' 'utm10\x00' ' == ' 'utm10' '
not equal

Changing the code to:
currColl=line.split(":")[1].strip().strip("\0")

works but I think strip() should already do that by default, shouldn't it?

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