Chopping off spaces at both ends

Hi

I am a newbie to python and am using it to interface some of my lab
equipment.

How does one get rid of spaces at both ends of a string ? A little like the
trim() intrinsic in fortran 95.

One of my instruments is returning a string that has one or more blanks in
it, and that is complicating string matching tests in one of my functions.

Thanks.
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