Track 7 · Lesson 2 of 11

Cleaning messy text

Tidy user-entered text with the strip family, case methods, replace, removeprefix and whitespace normalisation.

You will be able to

• Remove unwanted characters from the ends of a string with strip(), lstrip() and rstrip()
• Remove a known prefix or suffix safely with removeprefix() and removesuffix()
• Change case with lower(), upper(), title() and capitalize(), and know where title() goes wrong
• Replace text with replace(), including a limited number of replacements
• Collapse runs of spaces, tabs and newlines into single spaces with split() and join()