trimws

trimws(x, which='both', whitespace=' \t\n\r')

Remove leading and/or trailing whitespace from character strings.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
x	Union[str, List[str]]	a str, a list or an list-like object with text	required
which	str	either ‘both’, ‘left’ or ‘right’ indicating which side of x to trim	'both'
whitespace	str	a str with the whitespace characters to trim. Defaults to spact, tab, new line, carriage return	' \t\n\r'

Returns

Name	Type	Description
	Union[str, List[str]]	a list of the same length as x or a str with whitespace removed

Examples

>>> from rlike import *
>>> x = '  Hello world     '
>>> trimws(x)
'Hello world'
>>> x = ['  Hello world    ', '  ABCDEF']
>>> trimws(x, which = 'left')
['Hello world    ', 'ABCDEF']
>>> trimws(x, which = 'right')
['  Hello world', '  ABCDEF']