lstrip, rstrip and strip remove characters from the left, right and both ends of a string respectively. By default they remove whitespace characters (space, tabs, linebreaks, etc)
string - strip () vs lstrip () vs rstrip () in Python - Stack Overflow
strip does nothing but, removes the the whitespace in your string. If you want to remove the extra whitepace from front and back of your string, you can use strip.
I was told it deletes whitespace but s = "ss asdas vsadsafas asfasasgas" print(s.strip()) prints out ss asdas vsadsafas asfasasgas shouldn't it be ssasdasvsadsafasasfasasgas?
3 Just to add a few examples to Jim's answer, according to .strip() docs: Return a copy of the string with the leading and trailing characters removed. The chars argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed. If omitted or None, the chars argument defaults to removing whitespace.
python - How to use text strip () function? - Stack Overflow
All three string functions strip lstrip, and rstrip can take parameters of the string to strip, with the default being all white space. This can be helpful when you are working with something particular, for example, you could remove only spaces but not newlines: ... Or you could remove extra commas when reading in a string list:
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.