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bytearray.strip

bytearray — stripping

Strip bytes (whitespace by default) from both ends.

Syntax

ba.strip(...)

With no argument only ASCII whitespace bytes are removed (space, \t, \n, \r, \v, \f); bytes have no notion of Unicode spaces, so a UTF-8 non-breaking space survives. And although bytearray is mutable, strip() is not in-place: it hands back a new object that you have to assign somewhere.

Examples

print(bytearray(b'  hi  ').strip())   # → bytearray(b'hi')
print(bytearray(b'xxhixx').strip(b'x'))   # → bytearray(b'hi')
print(bytearray(b'\n data \t').strip())   # → bytearray(b'data')
print(bytearray(b'ababhiba').strip(b'ab'))   # → bytearray(b'hi')
print(bytearray(b'hello').strip(b'lo'))   # → bytearray(b'he')
print(bytearray(b'  hi  ').lstrip())   # → bytearray(b'hi  ')

See also

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