String: strip

.strip(), .lstrip(), .rstrip()

Will return the value of a string variable with leading and trailing characters removed.

Default, removes whitespace (spaces). If a character is supplied, that character will be removed.

.strip(): will remove leading and trailing characters

.lstrip():  will remove leading characters

.rstrip(): will remove trailing characters

Syntax

new_variable = original_variable.strip(chr)

new_variable = original_variable.lstrip(chr)

new_variable = original_variable.rstrip(chr)

chr: a string of characters to be removed

original_variable:  the original variable 

new_variable: will contain the modified string 

To remove the EOL character from the right side of a string:

    line = line.rstrip('\n')  

EOL: End of Line character

To remove leading and trailing whitespace (spaces)

data = "     hello there    "

data = data.strip()

To remove the "," character from the right side of a string:

    name = name.rstrip(',')

Example:

    str ="mississippim"

    print(str.strip('m'))

    print(str.rstrip('m'))

    print(str.lstrip('m'))

    print(str.strip('m'))

    print (str)

Output:

ississippi

mississippi

ississippim

ississippi

mississippim

notice the original string str is not changed -- or is not mutated