Iterating over a dictionary in python and stripping white space

Question

I am working with the web scraping framework Scrapy and I am a bit of a noob when it comes to python. So I am wondering how do I iterate over all of the scraped items which

Answer 1

Assuming you would like to strip the values of yourDict creating a new dict called newDict:

newDict = dict(zip(yourDict.keys(), [v.strip() if isinstance(v,str) else v for v in yourDict.values()]))

This code can handle multi-type values, so will avoid stripping int, float, etc.