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)

Dec 31, 2015 · Understanding python's lstrip method on strings [duplicate] Asked 9 years, 11 months ago Modified 9 years, 11 months ago Viewed 8k times

The lstrip() method will remove leading whitespaces, newline and tab characters on a string beginning:

lstrip is character-based, it removes all characters from the left end that are in that string. To verify this, try this:

Details Notice, here we strip both leading and trailing "0" s among other elements that satisfy a predicate. This tool is not limited to strings. See also docs for more examples of …

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".

May 22, 2019 · The reasons the u gets stripped is not related to \u or unicode. The problem is that the strip functions take a list of characters to strip, regardless of the order they are in (either in …

Oct 21, 2021 · Closed 4 years ago. My understanding is that the lstrip(arg) removes characters from the left based on the value of arg. I am executing the following code:

Jun 3, 2013 · Obviously (stupid me), because I have used lstrip wrongly: lstrip will remove all characters which appear in the passed chars string, not considering that string as a real string, …

Oct 10, 2010 · Python strip () multiple characters? Asked 15 years, 2 months ago Modified 2 years, 10 months ago Viewed 282k times