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On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:52:11 +0200, Jussi Piitulainen
<jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> declaimed the following:


>and not at all difficult. You'll get far by line.split(), splitting at
>any amount of whitespace by default (note that the .strip() in the
>line.strip().split() that someone posted is redundant).
>
	Call it paranoid overkill... I tend to think of the .strip() as being
used to remove the trailing new-line, THEN splitting what is left on white
space.

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