deleting the first and the last character of a string

Wed Sep 11 12:10:44 EDT 2002

On Wednesday 11 September 2002 09:03, Duncan Booth wrote:
>
> This doesn't work on Python 2.2.1 (or earlier), I think you need to be
> sitting astride the cutting edge of CVS development to do this.
>
> Specifically the change to implement this was April 22nd and 2.2.1 was
> released April 10th.

hmm, the 2.2.1 in Debian must have been updated then.  How annoying.  Thanks.

Python 2.2.1 (#2, Aug 30 2002, 10:27:17) 
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2