strip weirds

[Michael Hudson]

Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes:

> Can somebody explain why strip behaves differently with and without an
> argument?

Because:

> with the default whitespace arg [...] a run of whitespace is
> [...] treated as a single character.

This is usually what I want, at least, eg:

>>> 'a bunch of  words.  and stuff'.split()
['a', 'bunch', 'of', 'words.', 'and', 'stuff']

This has always been true as far as I know.

Cheers,
M.

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