Jeff Bauer jbauer at rubic.com
Wed Feb 9 19:59:45 EST 2000

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Paul Prescod wrote:
> What about string.strip and string.rstrip?

Those methods are indiscriminate with chopping
off whitespace when you want to preserve trailing
tabs/spaces (e.g. tab-delimited files).

Wait a sec ... didn't we already have a similar
discussion last year when you proposed adding
a second argument to the string.strip() family?

Jeff Bauer
Rubicon Research

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