Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'important,': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'def': 0.12; 'columns': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:dip0.t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'subject:values': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'subject:Issue': 0.19; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'skip:g 30': 0.30; 'but': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'remove': 0.60; 'here': 0.66 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> Subject: Re: Issue values dictionary Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:43:09 +0200 Organization: None References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5084bb7f.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: KNode/4.7.3 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 11 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1370418184 news.xs4all.nl 15869 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:58676 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:47031 alex23 wrote: > def get_transcript_and_size(line): > columns = line.strip().split() > return columns[0].strip(), int(columns[1].strip()) You can remove all strip() methods here as split() already strips off any whitespace from the columns. Not really important, but the nitpicker in me keeps nagging ;)