"strip" refers to the process of removing (stripping) certain characters from a string. A common example is removing trailing whitespace characters.
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strip() does not replace all \n
I'm trying to remove all "\n" in this string. However the string.strip() method does not entirely clean the text
body = "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSome text\n\nHow toremovealln?\n\t\t\t\t\tbecause…
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String tags and rearranging order from output
how would I go about stripping away the " - and tags from the curl output below? i tried strip_tags but then I do not know how to rearrange the order
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Python strip and Counter for top 3 alphabets
The output should be top 3 letters from the given input, but I am unable to remove the whitespace even after using strip function over the input.
Code :
from collections import Counter
insider = input("Enter the input you wanna enter : ")
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Python strip() and readlines()
I have a code that I am trying to run which will compare a value from a csv file to a threshold that I have set within the py file.
My csv file has an output similar to below, but with 1030 lines
-46.62
-47.42
-47.36
-47.27
-47.36
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Regarding stripping the commas, colons in the list of numbers
I have a list of numbers in a file after binning the values to the nearest integers by using the dict,and Counter functions...
from collections import Counter
count_numbers=dict(Counter([round(x) for x in list_numbers])
and the values i got…
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how to strip a txt file of multiple things?
I am creating a function which reads data of a txt file, the text file is set up as one sentence per line. I have 6 requirements to strip the file of to make it usable later on in my program:
1. Make everything lowercase
2. Split the line into…
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remove middle octets from an ip until some criteria is met
I have a string of IP and port numbers which is like : "10.213.110.49.33482;10.213.106.12.20001:"
The two ip's are separated by a semi-colon. Last decimal shows port number.What I need is to convert the above string which would look…
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Why split and strip gives different output in python?
I was trying to extract the state name from the string 'Rhode Island[edit]'.
When I tried .split('[[]').str[0], I was given the correct result 'Rhode Island'.
However, when I tried .rstrip('[edit]'), I was given the wrong result 'Rhode Islan'.
I got…
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Splitting up a list into a 2D list using tabs and spaces
I am trying to split up a python list into a 2D list starting with the following
testList = ["Color Blue»Temperature Warm»Gender Male",
"Color Green»Temperature Warm»Gender Female"]
Where » is a tab character and the attributes (color,…
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Remove \n from python string
I have scraped a webpage using beautiful soup.
I'm trying to get rid of a '\n' character which isnt eliminated despite whatever I try.
My effort so far:
wr=str(loc[i-1]).strip()
wr=wr.replace(r"\[|'u|\\n","")
print(wr)
Output:
[u'\nWong; Voon…
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What is the mechanism behind strip() function followed by a slice notation in python?
For example
sentence = "hello world"
stripped1 = sentence.strip()[:4]
stripped2 = sentence.strip()[3:8]
print (stripped1)
print (stripped2)
Output:
hell
lo worl
Here strip( ) is a function object. So it should either take parameters or be followed…
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Scraping needs to stop when it sees a white row
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib
import json
import os
jaren = [str("2012"), str("2010"), str("2006"), str("2003"),str("2002"), str("1998"), str("1994"), str("1989"), str("1986"), str("1982"), str("1981"), str("1977"), str("1972"),…
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Removing numbers.
Im trying to remove numbers from a print statement, but when i do try, it doesn't. It actually adds extra lines that are unwanted.
p=open('test1.txt','r')
t=open('outChanger.txt','w')
counter=0
for l in p:
counter+=1
if counter%3==0:
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Stripping numbers dates until first alphabet is found from string
I am trying an efficient way to strip numbers dates or any other characters present in a string until the first alphabet is found from the end.
string - '12.abd23yahoo 04/44 231'
Output - '12.abd23yahoo'
line_inp = "12.abd23yahoo 04/44 231"
line_out…
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Python - split a string with regular expression results and strip it
I need to write a function that will take a string as an argument and gives the description of the string as output. So when i insert the following string in my function:
"12:30 – 13:00 Red Light Radio – Ovational Exercises"
The output…
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