Remove leading and trailing spaces?

Question

I\'m having a hard time trying to use .strip with the following line of code.

Thanks for the help.

f.write(re.split(\"Tech ID:|Name:|Account #:\",li         


        

Answer 1

Starting file:

     line 1
   line 2
line 3  
      line 4 

Code:

with open("filename.txt", "r") as f:
    lines = f.readlines()
    for line in lines:
        stripped = line.strip()
        print(stripped)

Output:

line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4