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How can you use string methods like strip() on a unicode string? and can't you access characters of a unicode string like with oridnary strings? (ex: mystring[0:4] )
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The string strip() method in python is built-in from Python. It helps the developer to remove the whitespaces or specific characters from the string at the beginning and end of the string. Strip() method in string accepts only one parameter which is optional and has characters.
If encoding and/or errors are given, unicode() will decode the object which can either be an 8-bit string or a character buffer using the codec for encoding. The encoding parameter is a string giving the name of an encoding; if the encoding is not known, LookupError is raised.
It's working as usual, as long as they are actually unicode, not str (note: every string literal must be preceded by u, like in this example):
>>> a = u"coțofană"
>>> a
u'co\u021bofan\u0103'
>>> a[-1]
u'\u0103'
>>> a[2]
u'\u021b'
>>> a[3]
u'o'
>>> a.strip(u'ă')
u'co\u021bofan'
Maybe it's a bit late to answer to this, but if you are looking for the library function and not the instance method, you can use that as well. Just use:
yourunicodestring = u' a unicode string with spaces all around '
unicode.strip(yourunicodestring)
In some cases it's easier to use this one, for example inside a map function like:
unicodelist=[u'a',u' a ',u' foo is just...foo ']
map (unicode.strip,unicodelist)
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