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

[Alan Gauld]

"Christopher Spears" <cspears2002 at yahoo.com> wrote 

> I'm not sure how to proceed.  My biggest stumbling
> block is how to detect the leading and trailing
> whitespace.  

Use indexing.
Recall str[-1] is the last character
str[0] is the first...

Try using a while loop. 
Or maybe two?

And strings have an isspace method...

HTH,

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