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)

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.

The String.strip (), String.stripLeading (), and String.stripTrailing () methods trim white space [as determined by Character.isWhiteSpace ()] off either the front, back, or both front and back of the …

Dec 9, 2012 · I was told it deletes whitespace but s = "ss asdas vsadsafas asfasasgas" print(s.strip()) prints out ss asdas vsadsafas asfasasgas shouldn't it be ssasdasvsadsafasasfasasgas?

The method strip () returns a copy of the string in which all chars have been stripped from the beginning and the end of the string (default whitespace characters). So, it trims whitespace from begining and …

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; so instead you …

3 Just to add a few examples to Jim's answer, according to .strip() docs: Return a copy of the string with the leading and trailing characters removed. The chars argument is a string specifying the set of …

Feb 26, 2019 · a, v = (a.strip() for a in args.where.lower().split('=')) This uses a generator expression to process each element, so no intermediary list is created for the stripped strings. Python will throw an …

Jun 11, 2022 · How do I strip leading and trailing spaces from a string? For example, " dog " should become "dog".

Oct 1, 2016 · I want to eliminate all the whitespace from a string, on both ends, and in between words. I have this Python code: def my_handle(self): sentence = ' hello apple ' sentence.strip() But that