.rstrip()

The .rstrip() method removes trailing characters from a string. If no characters are given, it removes trailing whitespace by default.

Syntax

string.rstrip(characters)

• string (required): The string to remove trailing characters from.
• characters (optional): The characters to remove from the end of the string. All combinations of these characters will be removed from the end of the string until there is a mismatch. If characters are not provided, trailing whitespace will be removed from the string by default.

Example

In the following example, the .rstrip() method is called twice. The first call does not specify characters to remove, so whitespace is removed. And the second call specifies the characters "se" to be removed from the end of the string.

example_a = "happiness    "
example_b = "Tennessee"

whitespace_example = example_a.rstrip()
chars_example = example_b.rstrip("se")

print("Example A:", whitespace_example)
print("Example B:", chars_example)

This will result in the following output:

Example A: happiness
Example B: Tenn

Codebyte Example

The following example is runnable and uses the .rstrip() method twice. The first call does not specify characters to remove, so whitespace is removed. The second call specifies the characters "sca" to be removed from the end of the string.

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