compound strip() string problem

[Tony Meyer]

> As Sidharth Kuruvila pointed out, time.strftime() is probably 
> the best choice for your situation. For the general case of 
> removing whitespace from a sting, one method is:
> 
> ''.join(mystring.split())

Alternatively, you could do something like:

import string
for c in string.whitespace:
    mystring = mystring.replace(c, "")

Not as good if you want to remove all whitespace from the string, but it
looked like the OP only really had spaces, so a simple
mystring=mystring.replace(' ', '') would be the clearest (and fastest).

=Tony.Meyer