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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:48:10 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 06/04/2013 12:01 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 04/06/2013 16:49, mstagliamonte wrote:
>
> [strip the double line spaced nonsense]
>
> Can you please check your email settings.  It's bad enough being plagued
> with double line spaced mail from google, having it come from yahoo is
> just adding insult to injury, thanks :)
>

Mark:
The OP is posting from googlegroups, just using a yahoo return address. 
  So you just have one buggy provider to hate, not two.

 >>
 >>> If the header is something like:
 >>
 >>> h01 = ('>scaffold_1')
 >>
 >>> I just use:
 >>
 >>> h01.lstrip('>scaffold_')
 >>
 >>> and this returns me '1'
 >>
 >>>
 >>
 >>> But, if the header is:
 >>

madmaxthc@yahoo.it:

If you must use googlegroups, at least fix the double-posting and 
double-spacing bugs it has.  Start by reading:

  http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython




-- 
DaveA