deleting the first and the last character of a string

[Cliff Wells]

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 13:50, Cliff Wells wrote:

> >>> def chopd(s, d):
> ...     s = s.strip()
> ...     return s[s[0] == d : {0:len(s), 1:-1}[s[-1] == d]]

Er, slightly better:

          return s[s[0] == d : (len(s), -1)[s[-1] == d]]

(Note to self: dictionaries aren't answer to everything...)

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