[Tutor] FW: wierd replace problem

[Timo]

On 14-09-10 17:44, Roelof Wobben wrote:
>>> 9 stripped_words = words.strip(".,!?'`\"- ();:")
>>>
>>>        
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> Hello Joel,
>
> Your solution works.
> Im getting grazy. I tried it two days with strip and get a eof error message and now no messages.
>    
Look at the backslash! It doesn't strip the backslash in the string, but 
it escapes the double quote following it.

I don't know how people can explain it any better.

You *do* see that this doesn't work, right?
 >>> s = "foo"bar"

So you can't do this either:
 >>> word.strip(",.!";:")

You need to escape the quote between the quotes:
 >>> word.strip(".,!\";:")

Timo

> Roelof
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