["python","string","whitespace","trim","strip"]
How do I trim whitespace?

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".
For whitespace on both sides, use str.strip: s = " \t a string example\t " s = s.strip() For whitespace on the right side, use str.rstrip: s = s.rstrip() For whitespace on the left side, use str.lstrip: s = s.lstrip() You can provide an argument to strip arbitrary characters to any of these functions, like this: s = s.strip(' \t\n\r') This will strip any space, \t, \n, or \r characters from both sides of the string. The examples above only remove strings from the left-hand and right-hand sides of strings. If you want to also remove characters from the middle of a string, try re.sub: import re print(re.sub('[\s+]', '', s)) That should print out: astringexample