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 (), 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 dictionary …

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 …

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 …

I know .strip() returns a copy of the string in which all chars have been stripped from the beginning and the end of the string. But I wonder why / if it is necessary.

What's the equivalent to gcc -s in terms of strip with some of its options? They both do the same thing, removing the symbols table completely. However, as @JimLewis pointed out strip allows finer …

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 …

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 …

Aug 29, 2012 · map(str.strip, my_list) is the fastest way, it's just a little bit faster than comperhensions. Use map or itertools.imap if there's a single function that you want to apply (like str.split)