🔒 why does one method strip whitespace and the other does not?

[lyric mauve]

text = "X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.8475"
colonPos = text.find(':')
endPos = len(text)
print(text[colonPos+1:endPos].strip())

new = text[colonPos+1:endPos]
new.strip
print(new)

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[magic glen]

You always call a function using parentheses

[late forge]

Since strings are immutable, new.strip() does not modify the original new variable. Instead it returns the stripped value. So you need to assign the return value to a variable.

[magic glen]

new.strip should be new.strip()

[late forge]

• that

[magic glen]

also what AbhiyanS said - Python strings are immutable so you need to assign the return value to a variable.

[gleaming horizon]

I'm proposing all ides to autocomplete built-ins and user defined objects with parens 🙂

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