Error with string.strip

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3AE05834.93331DA5 at comm.mot.com>,
Stephen Boulet  <stephen.boulet at motorola.com> wrote:
>
>>>> 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
>
>Can someone tell me why this doesn't work? Thanks.

No, because it works for me.  What version of Python are you using?  Is
that literally a cut'n'paste?
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