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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:06:21 -0600
Subject: Re: Odd strip behavior
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why wasnt the t removed ?

Because str.strip() only removes leading or trailing characters.  If
you want to remove all the t's, use str.replace:

'this is a test'.replace('t', '')

Cheers,
Ian