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. 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 …

With strip (), this code will throw an exception because it strips the tab of the banana line. How do i strip leading and trailing spaces from a string? For example, dog should become dog.