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 …

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.

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".

The main issue is not using the return value of .strip(), but rather thinking that the method mutates the input string. Questions like this pop up like mushrooms, and are essentially typo questions …

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)

Feb 4, 2019 · str.strip() removes characters from the start and end of a string only. From the str.strip() documentation: Return a copy of the string with the leading and trailing characters …

Oct 8, 2015 · 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 …

926 strip doesn't mean "remove this substring". x.strip(y) treats y as a set of characters and strips any characters in that set from both ends of x. On Python 3.9 and newer you can use the …

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() …

Aug 29, 2012 · For now i've been trying to perform strip() on a list of strings and i did this: i = 0 for j in alist: alist[i] = j.strip() i+=1 Is there a better way of doing that?