Best way to strip() after split()

[k357k9]

data = 'Red Duck | $125 | New | Ready | Very Good'
product, price, condition, available, rating = data.split('|')

Is there an easy way to strip leading and trailing spaces with the strip() function
without having to do each item separately?

[buran]

map and strip from string module

from string import strip
data = 'Red Duck | $125 | New | Ready | Very Good'
product, price, condition, available, rating = map(strip, data.split('|'))

map and lambda

data = 'Red Duck | $125 | New | Ready | Very Good'
product, price, condition, available, rating = map(lambda s:s.strip(), data.split('|'))

using list comprehension

data = 'Red Duck | $125 | New | Ready | Very Good'
product, price, condition, available, rating = [s.strip() for s in data.split('|')]

[Larz60+]

You can use strip on same line:

>>> data = ' Red Duck | $125 | New | Ready | Very Good '.strip()
>>> data
'Red Duck | $125 | New | Ready | Very Good'
>>>

[buran]

Also split at  ' | ' if consistent

data = 'Red Duck | $125 | New | Ready | Very Good'
product, price, condition, available, rating = data.split(' | '))

[k357k9]

Thanks to buran & Larz60+ for the quick replies.
Let me work thru them and see if I have any more questions.

[k357k9]

buran - your #1 gives me a "Import Error: cannot import name 'strip'".
If I use import string & string.strip, it gives me a "AttributeError; module 'string' has no attribute "strip'".
Is this an old way of doing this that has been done away with?
Your #2 & #3 work just fine.

[DeaD_EyE]

It has been removed with Python 3. I guess the cause was code duplication. You can use instead str.strip.

[wavic]

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'

[buran]

Dead_EyE is right in python 3 you can use str.strip
 

Python 3.5.2 (default, Jul 17 2016, 00:00:00) 
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> data = 'Red Duck | $125 | New | Ready | Very Good'
>>> product, price, condition, available, rating = map(str.strip, data.split('|'))
>>> print(product, rating)
Red Duck Very Good
>>> 

My bad, I should have mentioned it's python2 or leave it out

[k357k9]

buran - If I use ' | ' (with the spaces) in the interpreter, it gives me an error. If I use it
in a program, it runs, but I end up with no data extracted. This is very strange.

BTW, how did you get that little box around ' | '?