Strip removes beginning and ending whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, and line breaks), useful for reading lines of a textfile.
extracting text without surrounding spaces >>> ' enclosed text '.strip() 'enclosed text' define own characters to get removed
>>> ',A,B,C,,,,,'.strip(',') 'A,B,C' >>> '0001230'.lstrip('0') '1230' for removing prefix or suffix, better using 'replace' >>> 'www.example.com'. replace('www.','') 'example.com' https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=strip#str.strip |
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