Andrew James wrote:
> *headbang*
>
> I'm an idiot. s=s[:-2] should be s=s[:-1].
>
> Andrew James wrote:
>> And as soon as I send it again I realise a pretty stupid error. The
>> two loops shouldn't be nested.
>>
>> Andrew James wrote:
>>> Helps if I send it to the group...
>>>
>>> And Kent, I didn't post it originally because I figured the other guy
>>> was still working on his script. Besides, I didn't think it'd be that
>>> far fetched for you to assume I was using something like "while s[0]
>>> == ' ':"
>>>
>>> Andrew James wrote:
>>>> I'm always nervous about sharing my code... It's like being back in
>>>> high school, I don't want the other kids to laugh at me. Anyway,
>>>> running that in IDLE with a string such as '
>>>> testing. ' Will print ' testing' at the
>>>> end of the first (second, really) loop.
>>>>
>>>> def strip(s):
>>>> while s[0].isspace() == True:
>>>> while s[-1].isspace() == True:
>>>> s = s[:-2]
>>>> print s
>>>> s = s[1:]
>>>> print s
>>>>
>>>> test = raw_input('Enter a string with plenty of leading and trailing
>>>> whitespace:')
>>>>
>>>> strip(test)
>>>>
>>>> Alan Gauld wrote:
>>>>> "Andrew James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> string containing a single space ' ' but even using s[-1].isspace() I
>>>>>> lose punctuation marks. Any idea why that's happening?
>>>>>>
>>>>> care to show us what you are doing?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ';'.isspace()
>>>>>>>>
>>>>> False
>>>>>
>>>>> So puntuation should not show up as true...
>>>>>
>>>>> Alan G.
>>>>>
So as not to copy strings many times :
while s[0].isspace() :
while s[-1].isspace() :
del s[-1]
del s[0]
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