"Colin J. Williams" schrieb
> The Library Reference has
> strip( [chars])
>
> Return a copy of the string with the
> leading and trailing characters removed.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's "leading and trailing", not
"leading, trailing or embedded".
>>> "xxxaaaxxx".strip("x")
'aaa'
>>> "xxxaaaxxxaaaxxx".strip("x")
'aaaxxxaaa'
>>>
HTH
Martin