[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 2, 11:45 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I suspect what you need is the .replace() method. > > The information's there-- the word 'contiguous' might clear it up a > bit. > >>> Return a copy of the string with the >>> leading and trailing characters removed. >>> The chars argument is a string >>> specifying the set of characters to be >>> removed. If omitted or None, the chars >>> argument defaults to removing >>> whitespace. The chars argument is not a >>> prefix or suffix; rather, all >>> combinations of its values are stripped: > > Return the string's substring from the first character not a member of > 'chars' to the last such. > > Remove contiguous leading and trailing members of 'chars'. If omitted > or None, 'chars' defaults over to the set of whitespace set( "\n\r\t > " ). (XXX TODO: ask Steve Reg Ex Guru this).
Thanks to all respondents, Steve Holden is right, I expected more than I should have. Colin W. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list