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. Without strip (), bananas is present in the dictionary but with an empty string as value.

The method strip () returns a copy of the string in which all chars have been stripped from the beginning and the end of the string (default whitespace characters). So, it trims whitespace from begining and … The string. strip (), string. stripleading (), and string. striptrailing () methods trim white space [as determined by character. iswhitespace ()] off either the front, back, or both front and back of the …