Style question

[Kamus of Kadizhar]

I have the following line:

remoteMD5hash = Socket.recv(256)

But what I really want is remoteMD5hash.strip()

What's the best way to say that on one line?

remoteKD5hash = string.strip(Socket.recv(256)) ?

Or something better?

-Kamus

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