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 (), bananas is present in the dictionary but with an empty string as value. With strip (), this code will throw an exception because it strips the tab of the banana line.

Aug 29, 2012 · list = map(str.strip, list) This will apply the function str.strip to every element in list, return a new list, and store the result back in list.

926 strip doesn't mean "remove this substring". x.strip(y) treats y as a set of characters and strips any characters in that set from both ends of x. On Python 3.9 and newer you can use the removeprefix …

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 …

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 …

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?

Jun 17, 2014 · But when using strip --strip-unneeded, it changed the size from 400+ mb to 55 mb which is still considerable, yet allowed the library to be accessed from other shared libraries. In short, I'd …

Jul 7, 2020 · The start is simple enough - it opens a file encyin.txt in read mode. It takes input - n & p - from the line, the .split() separating the two inputs. They are then classified as integers, and an …