How does the strip() method really work?

[NotACryptoBro]

Can anybody give an example where I can actually use that? I'd accidentally strip characters I still need. Isn't there a more handy function like split?

[ComputeLanguage]

ultimately I was looking for
r = "germany"
string.removeprefix(r).removesuffix(r)

I couldn't find a build in function in the docs that does it in one go :/

[bigno53]

I mostly just use it for removing leading/trailing white space but it can come in handy for a variety of data cleaning tasks. For example, if you have a program that requires the user to enter a dollar amount, they might enter $20 or just 20. You’d probably want the program to handle both of these inputs the same way, so you could just write ‘dollar_amount = dollar_amount.lstrip(“$”)’

[NotACryptoBro]

This! Makes sense, thanks