Re: Goodbying Spaces

[Luis Zarrabeitia]

Whats the result of using id.strip()?:

In [1]: " asdfasdf ".strip()
Out[1]: 'asdfasdf'

It should work, I guess...

Btw, you can write your code without using len in a cleaner way:

try:
if id[0] == ' ':
id = id[1:] # Note this slice notation...
except:
pass

try:
if id[-1] == ' ': # id[-1] would be the last character
id = id[:-1] # Again, a slice with only one argument
except:
pass

Cheers,

K.

On Friday 25 April 2008 05:01:31 pm Victor Subervi wrote:

Hi;
Whenever I call a field from the preceeding form using cgi.FieldStorage()I
get a space on either side. I end up writing code like this to get rid of
that space:

try:

if id[0] == ' ':

id = id[1:len(id)]

except:

pass

try:

if id[len(id) - 1] == ' ':

id = id[0:len(id) - 1]

except:

pass
which is a nuisance. Is there a better way to do this? I have tried
id.strip() with no luck. What do?
TIA,
Victor

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Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH.
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