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 …

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() …

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)

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?

The canonical way to strip end-of-line (EOL) characters is to use the string rstrip () method removing any trailing \r or \n. Here are examples for Mac, Windows, and Unix EOL characters.

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, …

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 …