Editing a string

[Bill Scherer]

import string
string.strip(str)
....

kurtn at my-deja.com wrote:

> file=open('gs.txt','r')
> pr=''
> while 1:
>         line = file.readline()
>         if not line:
>                 break
>         pr=pr+line
> file.close()
> print [pr]
>
> output:
> ['attgctagcytr   \012']
>
> How can I delete the space and \012 without editing the file. Is there
> a built-in function?
>
> thanks
> k
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William K. Scherer
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Verizon Wireless