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remove whitespace in python

April 17th, 2006 by Lawrence David

assuming you’ve got some string named foo, to remove leading white space:

>>> foo.lstrip()

to remove trailing whitespace:

>>> foo.rstrip()

to remove both lead and trailing whitespace:

>>> foo.strip()

Posted in Python | 10 Comments »

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10 Responses to “remove whitespace in python”

1. on 10 Sep 2008 at 10:15 am   Tod

   Sweet and simple. Thanks

2. on 13 Jan 2009 at 12:04 pm   Daniel

   Nice blog

3. on 31 Mar 2009 at 5:04 pm   cprail

   Thank you!

4. on 29 Oct 2009 at 9:13 pm   Luis

   what about removing spaces in the middle of the string?

5. on 04 Dec 2009 at 8:32 am   TJ

   import string # or from string import replace

   yourstring.replace(‘ ‘,”)

6. on 21 Jan 2011 at 6:48 pm   jonathan

   asked google, sent me here, easy answer. ty.

7. on 07 Nov 2011 at 7:32 pm   Nigel

   LOL howdoiremovewhitespace.lstrip()

8. on 26 Jan 2012 at 2:50 am   joe

   Respected sir
   How to remove white spaces which are in middle ?

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   and:
   strip(‘\n’)
   to remove “new line” from the end of line

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