On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:00:38AM -0800, Ant wrote: > > > On Dec 20, 5:20 am, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >>> values = ", ".join([escapeAndQuote(f[:-2]) for f in fields]) > > Obviously this is the appropriate choice since this is a database app. > In general the strip() group of string methods do what you want in a > safe way - assuming you don't care about whitespace: > > >>> s = " test \r\n" > >>> s.strip() > 'test'
perfect! [...] > > This way it doesn't matter what your line endings are - you won't be > surprised by missing characters if the data dump changes for any > reason. well, no great chance of the data dump changing, but its a good point. thanks A
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