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

[Alan Gauld]

"wesley chun" <wescpy at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> > I'm not sure how to proceed.  My biggest stumbling
>> > block is how to detect the leading and trailing
>> > whitespace.
>>
>> Use indexing.
>> Try using a while loop.
>> Or maybe two?
>>
>> And strings have an isspace method...
>
> unfortunately, the isspace() string method only returns True if all
> chars in the string are whitespace chars and False otherwise, so
> that's a bummer.

But the string can be one character long:

s = 'fred\n'
print s[-1].isspace()      # --> True

:-)

Alan G