strip 28 29 function

1a = "  smurf   "
2
3a = a.strip()
4#remove space at begining and end of string
5print(a)
6#smurf

1# Leading and trailing whitespaces are removed
2text1 = '  Python Programming   '
3print(text1.strip())
4
5
6# Remove the whitespace and specified character on
7# both leading and trailing end
8text3 = '       code its my code        '
9print(text3.strip(' code'))
10
11# Remove the specified character at 
12# both leading and trailing end
13text2 = 'code its my code'
14print(text2.strip('code'))