trim start and trailing space chars from string

[Konstantinos Pachopoulos]

Hi,
is there something corresponding to the java String.trim() method, ie
trim start and trailing space/tab chars from string?
say convert " asdf " to "asdf"?

Thnx

 

[John Machin]

Hi,
is there something corresponding to the java String.trim() method, ie
trim start and trailing space/tab chars from string?
say convert " asdf " to "asdf"?

http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html