Error with string.strip

[Stephen Boulet]

Paolo Invernizzi wrote:

> Python 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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> >>> import string
> >>> string.strip(" 15157 ?         0:01 ttsession\012")
> '15157 ?         0:01 ttsession'
>
> "Stephen Boulet" <stepheb at comm.mot.com> wrote in message
> news:3AE05834.93331DA5 at comm.mot.com...
> > Can someone tell me why this doesn't work? Thanks.
> >
> > >>> import string
> > >>> string.strip("all's well as ends well     ")
> > "all's well as ends well"
> > >>> string.strip(" 15157 ?         0:01 ttsession\012")
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1
> >     string.strip(' 15157 ?         0:01 ttsession\012')
> >                                                        ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >

Hmm. I'm using 1.5.1 for HPUX 10.x. Maybe I need to upgrade...

-- Stephen