How to remove extraneous spaces from Python array? [duplicate]

Question

I have a python array containing a mixed set of values that looks somewhat like the example below:

['0012 ', ' 318422 ', ' www.example.com']

My question is, how can I easily remove leading and trailing spaces from values in the array, such that it looks like this:

['0012', '318422', 'www.example.com']

YXD · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-16 20:55:32Z

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Like so

[x.strip() for x in mylist]

answered Mar 16, 2016 at 20:55

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user2390182 · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-16 20:57:02Z

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You can use map and strip:

a = ['0012 ', ' 318422 ', ' www.example.com']
clean_a = map(lambda x: x.strip(), a)

answered Mar 16, 2016 at 20:57

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