How To Remove Leading white space from key-value which is a list in a dictionary

Question

So I have something like:

d = {'d':[' Cool Guy', ' Cool Gal']}

How do I remove the space inside the key-value so my output would be

d = {'d':['Cool Guy', 'Cool Gal']}

I appreciate the help, thank you.

It's a list, that's in a dictionary if I try to use .lstrip or replace, it isn't working — Tryingtolearnpython, Nov 29 '19 at 05:58
u can use `d = {key: [x.strip() for x in val] for key, val in d.items()}` — Shijith, Nov 29 '19 at 05:59
@Tryingtolearnpython I think my solution is general for any length dictionary (key wise) and list lengths (value wise) — lbragile, Nov 29 '19 at 06:01

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 29 '19 at 05:55

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d = {'d':[' Cool Guy', ' Cool Gal']}
for key in d:
    d[key] = [ls.strip() for ls in d[key]]

answered Nov 29 '19 at 05:55

Ankit Agrawal

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There is also `.lstrip()` if you only want to remove only the leading space and ignore trailing whitespace. – monkut Nov 29 '19 at 05:59

lbragile · Answer 2 · 2019-11-29T06:02:04.130

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d = {'d':[' Cool Guy', ' Cool Gal']}

for k, v in d.items():
    new_d = {k:[elem[1:] for elem in v]}
    print(new_d)

Output:

{'d': ['Cool Guy', 'Cool Gal']}

Logic:

edited Nov 29 '19 at 06:02

answered Nov 29 '19 at 05:56

lbragile

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