String comparison in Numpy

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Published on 2010-03-23T15:50:20Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 15:53 UTC
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In the following example

In [8]: import numpy as np

In [9]: strings = np.array(['hello    ', 'world    '], dtype='|S10')

In [10]: strings == 'hello'
Out[10]: array([False, False], dtype=bool)

The comparison fails because of the whitespace. Is there a Numpy built-in function that does the equivalent of

In [12]: np.array([x.strip()=='hello' for x in strings])
Out[12]: array([ True, False], dtype=bool)

which does give the correct result?

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