text: import unittest
  import os
  
  import reader.reader as reader
  from reader.reader import Reader
  
  CURRENT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
  
  
  class TestReaderMethods(unittest.TestCase):
      """
      Unit test class containing the methods that test the Reader class methods
      """
  
      def test_strip_whitespace(self):
  
          word = " “'\"\t\n\rHello."
          word = reader.strip_whitespace_and_punctuation(word)
  
          self.assertEqual("hello", word)