"Colin J. Williams" schrieb > The Library Reference has > strip( [chars]) > > Return a copy of the string with the > leading and trailing characters removed. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's "leading and trailing", not
"leading, trailing or embedded".
>>> "xxxaaaxxx".strip("x")
'aaa'
>>> "xxxaaaxxxaaaxxx".strip("x")
'aaaxxxaaa'
>>>
HTH
Martin
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