How do I trim whitespace from a Python string?

Question

How do I remove leading and trailing whitespace from a string in Python?For example: " Hello " --> "Hello" " Hello" --> "Hello" "Hello " --> "Hello" "Bob has a cat" --> "Bob has a cat"

Answer 1

>>> s = " test string \t"

>>> print(s)

test string

>>> s.strip()

'test string'