Remove leading and trailing spaces

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I m having a hard time trying to use  strip with the following line of code    Thanks for the help   f write re split  Tech ID  Name  Account     line  -1

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Starting file        line 1    line 2 line 3         line 4    Code   with open  filename txt    r   as f      lines   f readlines       for line in lines          stripped   line strip           print stripped    Output   line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4

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Should be noted that strip   method would trim any leading and trailing whitespace characters from the string  if there is no passed-in argument   If you want to trim space character s   while keeping the others  like newline   this answer might be helpful   sample      some string n  sample modified   sample strip       print sample modified     will print  some string n    strip  chars    You can pass in optional characters to strip  chars   method  Python will look for occurrences of these characters and trim the given string accordingly

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Expand your one liner into multiple lines  Then it becomes easy   f write re split  Tech ID  Name  Account     line  -1    parts   re split  Tech ID  Name  Account     line  wanted part   parts -1  wanted part stripped   wanted part strip   f write wanted part stripped

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You can use the strip   to remove trailing and leading spaces    gt  gt  gt  s       abd cde      gt  gt  gt  s strip    abd cde    Note  the internal spaces are preserved

[python] Remove leading and trailing spaces?

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