How to remove whitespace from end of string in Python?

Question

I want to remove the whitespace at the end of 'Joe'

name = 'Joe'
print(name, ', you won!')
>>>Joe , you won!

I tried the rstrip method, but it didn't work

name='Joe'
name=name.rstrip()
print(name, ', you won!')
>>>Joe , you won!

My only solution was to concatenate the string

name='Joe'
name=name+','
print(name,'you won!')
>>>Joe, you won!

What am I missing?

Martijn Pieters · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 17:21:50Z

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The print() function adds whitespace between the arguments, there is nothing to strip there.

Use sep='' to stop the function from doing that:

print(name, ', you won!', sep='')

or you can use string formatting to create one string to pass to print():

print('{}, you won!'.format(name))

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 17:20

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2 Comments

You're so quick! LOL :)

@MartijnPieters got it ;)

Paulo Bu · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 17:20:35Z

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The white space is being added by print because you're passing it two parameters and this is how it works.

Try this:

print(name, ', you won!', sep='')

Another way would be doing some string formatting like:

print('%s, you won!' % (name))    # another way of formatting.

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 17:20

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user3286261 · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-03 17:45:05Z

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I like to concatenate the strings to avoid unwanted spaces:

print(name + ', you won.')

answered Mar 3, 2014 at 17:45

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