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)

Dec 9, 2012 · Additionally, there is a very powerful tool within the Python interactive interpreter - you can do something like help("".strip) to get a bevy of useful information.

Without strip (), you can have empty keys and values: apples<tab>round, fruity things oranges<tab>round, fruity things bananas<tab> Without strip (), bananas is present in the …

The large majority of the questions I answer, I do so using SO! Maybe SO should make available a JFGI flag for noobs? Ha! Anyway, thanks for the explanation, appreciate it. strip doesn't …

Feb 19, 2012 · 37 The strip() method removes whitespace by default, so there is no need to call it with parameters like '\t' or '\n'. However, strings in Python are immutable and can't be modified, …

Please do not ask questions that are easily addressed by reading the docs. You are expected to have done some research, and looking at documentation for some method you don't …

Is there a Python function that will trim whitespace (spaces and tabs) from a string? So that given input &quot; \\t example string\\t &quot; becomes &quot;example string&quot;.

An example in Python's documentation simply uses line.strip(). Perl's chomp function removes one linebreak sequence from the end of a string only if it's actually there.

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; …

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 …