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I am webscraping descriptions under images from a website and I am currently trying to scrape the descriptions using BeautifulSoup.

But that is working, some of the descriptions have one or more trailing spaces that I want to get rid of. How do I check if a string in a list has any trailing spaces and then to get rid of all the trailing spaces in each string of the list?

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  • You can use `rstrip()` method. You can read more about it here - https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-string-rstrip/ – Dhaval Taunk May 26 '20 at 14:00
  • Or even `rstrip()` if they're trailing – David Buck May 26 '20 at 14:00
  • or `strip()` is you want to remove both leading and trailing whitespace – Heike May 26 '20 at 14:01
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    Does this answer your question? [Remove leading and trailing spaces?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10443400/remove-leading-and-trailing-spaces) or even better: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3232953/python-removing-spaces-from-list-objects – Tomerikoo May 26 '20 at 14:01
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    Does this answer your question? [Python: Removing spaces from list objects](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3232953/python-removing-spaces-from-list-objects) – Hanan Hazani May 26 '20 at 14:02
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    Googling your exact title will give many results and many good, relevant answers. Did you even try that before asking here? – Tomerikoo May 26 '20 at 14:04
  • To the last comments posted, I did search it and i just wanted to get a better explanation for my case. My apologies for creating a duplicate. – Bhavya Patel May 26 '20 at 14:19

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stripped_list = [element.rstrip() for element in original_list]
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