Remove white space in value of python dictionary without converting to string?

Question

I have a dictionary and I need to remove one whitespace at the beginning of the result value.

dct = {   
    'data': '',
    'order': 100,
    'result': ' home page',
    'step': 'click'
}

So it will end up looking like this:

dct = {   
    'data': '',
    'order': 100,
    'result': 'home page',
    'step': 'click'
}

Answer 1

Just .strip() the values if they are strings. Here is the dictionary comprehension approach:

dct = {
    'data': '',
    'order': 100,
    'result': ' home page',
    'step': 'click'
}

dct = {k: v.strip() if isinstance(v, str) else v for k, v in dct.items()}
print(dct)

output:

{'data': '', 'order': 100, 'result': 'home page', 'step': 'click'}

.strip() will remove whitespaces from both left and right side of the string. If you need it to remove the left whitespaces only, you can use .lstrip() instead.

Answer 2

You can do that with the following

for key in dct:
    if type(dct[key]) == str:
        dct[key] = dct[key].strip()