lstrip, rstrip and strip remove characters from the left, right and both ends of a string respectively. By default they remove whitespace characters (space, tabs, linebreaks, etc)

May 4, 2012 · strip([chars]): You can pass in optional characters to strip([chars]) method. Python will look for occurrences of these characters and trim the given string accordingly.

Feb 1, 2013 · You are misunderstanding what .strip() does. It removes any of the characters found in the string you pass. From the str.strip() documentation: The chars argument is a …

Without strip (), bananas is present in the dictionary but with an empty string as value. With strip (), this code will throw an exception because it strips the tab of the banana line.

Jul 26, 2009 · Is there a Python function that will trim whitespace (spaces and tabs) from a string? So that given input " \t example string\t " becomes "example string".

Oct 8, 2015 · 3 Pointers: strip returns a new string, so you need to assign that to something. (better yet, just use a list comprehension) Iterating over a file object gives you lines, not words; …

Dec 9, 2012 · 2 As we know s.strip() function returns a string in which leading and trailing spaces are removed or striped but if we use strip () function with a argument like-

Oct 1, 2016 · 3 In the following script we import the regular expression module which we use to substitute one space or more with a single space. This ensures that the inner extra spaces are …

strip doesn't change the original string since strings are immutable. Also, instead of string1.strip(' '), use string1.replace(' ', '') and set a return value to the new string or just return it.

Apr 9, 2022 · Sometimes I feel like python purposely avoids the well-accepted and meaningful names that the vast majority of languages use in order to be "unique" and "different" - strip …