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 รขโ‚ฌยฆ 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 รขโ‚ฌยฆ

With strip (), this code will throw an exception because it strips the tab of the banana line.