On Monday, August 16, 2010 16:49:45 bearophile wrote: > Jonathan M Davis: > > A string with whitespace is _not_ a number. > > I will not agree with this this (I am talking about leading/trailing > whitespace only). Regarding the other things you say, I have already given > answers to them. > > Bye, > bearophile
Well, while it may not be what you want, writing a wrapper which calls strip() would be easy to do. - Jonathan M Davis