How to delete leading and trailing characters from string?

Question

I have this code:

    for item in items:
        currency_name = item.text
        currency_name.split('\n')
        comps.append({
            'currency_name': currency_name
        })

    print(comps)

and this is my print(comps):

{'currency_name': '\n\n                     Австралійський долар                   \n'}, {'currency_name': '\n\n                     Азербайджанський манат                   \n'},

How else can I delete this \n and space?

Answer 1

Try str.strip:

...

currency_name = item.text
comps.append({
    "currency_name": currency_name.strip()
})

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