How to delete leading and trailing characters from string?

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I have this code:

    for item in items:
        currency_name = item.text
        currency_name.split('n')
        comps.append({
            'currency_name': currency_name
        })

    print(comps)

and this is my print(comps):

{'currency_name': 'nn                     Австралійський долар                   n'}, {'currency_name': 'nn                     Азербайджанський манат                   n'},

How else can I delete this n and space?

Asked By: makim

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Answer 1

Try str.strip:

...

currency_name = item.text
comps.append({
    "currency_name": currency_name.strip()
})

...

Answered By: Andrej Kesely

Answer 2

Note that currency_name.split('n') this line is redundant – you just throw away the returned list.

That said str.strip() method would do 'currency_name': currency_name.strip()

However, assuming this is part of scrapping and using Beautiful Soup, there is convenient stripped_strings() method

So

comps = []
for item in items:
    comps.append({'currency_name': next(item.stripped_strings())})

print(comps)

or

comps = [{'currency_name': next(item.stripped_strings())} for item in items]
print(comps)

Answered By: buran

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