Chopping off spaces at both ends

[Tim Roberts]

Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-here at spam.invalid> wrote:
>
>        I am a newbie to python and am using it to interface some of my lab
>equipment.
>
>        How does one get rid of spaces at both ends of a string ? A little like the
>trim() intrinsic in fortran 95.
>
>        One of my instruments is returning a string that has one or more blanks in
>it, and that is complicating string matching tests in one of my functions.

 >>>  a = '  abc '
 >>>  print a.strip()
 'abc'
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