Which method can be used to remove any whitespace from both the beginning and the end of a string?

Answer 1

If str is your string variable

Check for
str.strip()

https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.strip

Answer 2

Prokopios Poulimenos It is not recommended to use functions (e.g. str) as variable names as it can mess up with your code.

Python 3 Documentation.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.strip

Answer 3

@Diego
It was just an example.