I know people might be sick of this thread by now, but
I decided to post a solution to this problem that uses
regular expressions.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import string
import re
def my_strip(s):
remove_leading = re.sub(r'^\s+','',s)
remove_trailing =
re.sub(r'\s+$','',remove_leading)
new_s = remove_trailing
return new_s
test = raw_input("Enter a string with leading and
trailing whitespace: ")
#print test
new_s = my_strip(test)
print new_s
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