How to trim leading and trailing Whitespace from a Text String in Python

Whitespace trimming has all kinds of practical applications, but you probably don’t need me to explain that. Instead, I shall be delving into an easy means by which you can implement this type of feature into your project with as little effort required on your part as possible. Sound good? Read on.

Pip install the client to begin:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

And from there, our function call.

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.EditTextApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
request = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.RemoveWhitespaceFromTextRequest() # RemoveWhitespaceFromTextRequest | Input request
try:
# Trim leading and trailing whitespace from text string
api_response = api_instance.edit_text_trim_whitespace(request)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling EditTextApi->edit_text_trim_whitespace: %s\n" % e)

Finally, toss in your string as part of the request object, and your new loyal API servant will handle the rest.

Wouldn’t you rather be hugging a puppy instead of coding?