How to parsing a sequence of integers

[John Machin]

On Dec 20, 12:33 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli... at websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
> Steven Woody a écrit :> Hi,
>
> > I am a newbie and is reading the python book.  Could anyone tell me,
> > how to parsing the following string
> >    "123 100 12 37 ..."
>
>  > into a list of integers on which I can then apply max()/min()?
>
> source = "123 100 12 37"
> list_of_ints = [int(part) for part in source.strip().split()]

The purpose of the .strip() would be ...?