[Python-Dev] Patches

[Paul Prescod]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
> ...
> newlist = map(string.strip, oldlist)
> 
> As far as I'm aware, there's no clean way to do that with string methods.

Once we have list comprehensions, there will be:

newlist = [for x in oldlist: x.strip()]

I think the list-comp version is much more readable and "generic".

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