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Subject: Re: Best way to clean up list items?
Date: Mon, 02 May 2016 10:25:30 -0700
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On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 09:33 AM, DFS wrote:
> Have: list1 = ['\r\n   Item 1  ','  Item 2  ','\r\n  ']

I'm curious how you got to this point, it seems like you can solve the
problem in how this is generated.

> Want: list1 = ['Item 1','Item 2']

That said:

list1 = [t.strip() for t in list1 if t and not t.isspace()]

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Stephen Hansen
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