How to remove trailing newline in Python - rstrip() method

• rstrip() method returns a copy of the string after removing the ending/trailing characters from the string.


• rstrip() either accepts zero argument which means removing spaces or or it accepts one argument.


• Similar to strip() method rstrip() also strips only strings, otherwise it throws TypeError.

Syntax:

str.rstrip('characters')

'characters' is optional

Remove trailing newline character :

str = 'Hey there\n'
new_str = str.rstrip('\n')
print(new_str)

Output:

>>>Hey there

If you just want to remove spaces in the end, then :

str = 'Hey there    '
new_str = str.rstrip()
print(new_str)

Output:

>>>Hey there

Just like strip() method the order and number of the characters passed in the rstrip() method does not matter.

str = 'heeyyyyyy'
new_str = str.rstrip('ye')
print(new_str)

Output:

>>>h

Also read: strip() method and lstrip() method