Is there a better way to use strip() on a list of strings? - python [duplicate]

Question

For now i've been trying to perform strip() on a list of strings and i did this:

i = 0 for j in alist:     alist[i] = j.strip()     i+=1 

Is there a better way of doing that?

Answer 1

You probably shouldn't be using list as a variable name since it's a type. Regardless:

list = map(str.strip, list)  

This will apply the function str.strip to every element in list, return a new list, and store the result back in list.

Answer 2

You could use list comprehensions

stripped_list = [j.strip() for j in initial_list]