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

I use the following. You can pass any object as an argument, including a string, list or dictionary.

# strip any type of object
def strip_all(x):
  if isinstance(x, str): # if using python2 replace str with basestring to include unicode type
    x = x.strip()
  elif isinstance(x, list):
    x = [strip_all(v) for v in x]
  elif isinstance(x, dict):
    for k, v in x.iteritems():
      x.pop(k)  # also strip keys
      x[ strip_all(k) ] = strip_all(v)
  return x