[Tutor] String method "strip()" not working

[Alan Gauld]

On 07/03/15 13:15, Akash Shekhar wrote:
> I am trying to learn how to use strip() method. It is supposed to cut out
> all the whitespace as I read in the tutorial.

Read it again more closely.

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Help on built-in function strip:

strip(...)
     S.strip([chars]) -> string or unicode

     Return a copy of the string S with leading and trailing
     whitespace removed.
     If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.
     If chars is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping
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So it only strips leading and training whitespace, not the whitespace 
inside the string. (Use str.translate() for that)
HTH

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