[Tutor] creating the equivalent of string.strip()

[Alan Gauld]

"Andrew James" <aijames at exemail.com.au> wrote

> string containing a single space ' ' but even using s[-1].isspace() 
> I
> lose punctuation marks. Any idea why that's happening?

care to show us what you are doing?

>>> ';'.isspace()
False

So puntuation should not show up as true...

Alan G.