A question about a metacharacter

[igbt]

On 20 mar, 12:38, Chris <cwi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 1:19 pm, igbt <lun... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
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> > I am creating a simple script which is using gtk. In this script you
> > must enter a text, if you do not enter anything or you enter a dot,
> > the script will be finished. However, if you don't enter anything the
> > script works but if you enter a dot (.) the script does not work. I
> > was investigating about it and I think the problem is with the dot
> > character  sss == "." .  I was trying the same line with other
> > metacharacters like *, (, ) ...  and I found the same problem. I was
> > looking for an example where I could see the way I could do it without
> > any error but I did not find it. Could somebody tell me how can I
> > solve this error?
>
> > sss = entryName.get_text()      # The script gets the text
> >         if sss == "" or sss == ".":
> >                 gtk.main_quit()        #The script finishes
>
> > Thanks ; -)
>
> try this.
>
> sss = entryName.get_text()
> if not sss.strip() or sss.strip() == '.':
>     gtk.main_quit()
>
> I wouldn't be suprised if your input is being captured with End-Of-
> Line characters which would cause the mis-match.

It does not work. Thanks for your help