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Hi

I am a newbie to python and am using it to interface some of my lab
equipment.

How does one get rid of spaces at both ends of a string ? A little like the
trim() intrinsic in fortran 95.

One of my instruments is returning a string that has one or more blanks in
it, and that is complicating string matching tests in one of my functions.

Thanks.

Use the strip() method.

Example:

>>> "\t abc \n".strip()
"abc"

Variants are lstrip() and rstrip().

Regards,
Kay

On 7 Aug 2005 10:14:33 -0700, "Kay Schluehr" <> wrote:

>Use the strip() method.
>
>Example:
>
>>>> "\t abc \n".strip()
>"abc"
>
>Variants are lstrip() and rstrip().
>

and also occasionally useful:

>>> 'abc123cab'.strip('bca')
'123'

I.e., a strip argument as an unordered set of characters that
causes stripping so long as characters at the end(s) of the
string being stripped are found that are in the set.

Regards,
Bengt Richter

Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-> wrote:
>
> I am a newbie to python and am using it to interface some of my lab
>equipment.
>
> How does one get rid of spaces at both ends of a string ? A little like the
>trim() intrinsic in fortran 95.
>
> One of my instruments is returning a string that has one or more blanks in
>it, and that is complicating string matching tests in one of my functions.

>>> a = ' abc '
>>> print a.strip()
'abc'
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