The str object has strip method. Any string is an str object so:
"any string".strip()In [1]: s = "a string"
In [2]: type(s)
Out[2]: str
In [3]: dir(s)
Out[3]:
# I've removed the __dunder__ functions to shorten the output
['capitalize',
'casefold',
'center',
'count',
'encode',
'endswith',
'expandtabs',
'find',
'format',
'format_map',
'index',
'isalnum',
'isalpha',
'isdecimal',
'isdigit',
'isidentifier',
'islower',
'isnumeric',
'isprintable',
'isspace',
'istitle',
'isupper',
'join',
'ljust',
'lower',
'lstrip',
'maketrans',
'partition',
'replace',
'rfind',
'rindex',
'rjust',
'rpartition',
'rsplit',
'rstrip',
'split',
'splitlines',
'startswith',
'strip', # here it is.
'swapcase',
'title',
'translate',
'upper',
'zfill']
In [4]: type("another string")
Out[4]: str
In [5]: "_strip it_".strip('_') # without an argument stip() will strip the whitespaces - ' \t\n\r\x0b\x0c'
Out[5]: 'strip it'
