Python reference

[Heiko Wundram]

Am Freitag, 4. Juni 2004 22:07 schrieb Reiner Block:
> <ironic>really great this documentation.</ironic> I'm searching and
> searching for two possibilities: test if a string is a number (integer) or
> to strip leading and trailing blanks. But it is impossible to find in the
> documentation how to do it. :-(  Really: I never saw a worse docu as this
> one.

I don't really know how you're looking for what you need... Stripping leading 
and trailing blanks is something that has to do with string manipulation. Go 
and check: Library Reference -> String Type, and you'll soon find 
str.strip().

About testing whether something is an integer: As always in Python, try to do 
what you're doing, and test whether it succeeds.

y = "123a"
try:
	x = int(y)
except ValueError:
	print "Not a number."

HTH!

Heiko.