Python String rstrip() Method

The rstrip() method removes trailing whitespace characters from a string. We can also specify custom characters to remove from end of string.

Let's take an example to remove whitespace from the ends of a string.

s = "Hello Python!   "
res = s.rstrip()
print(res)

Hello Python!

Syntax of rstrip() Method

s.rstrip(chars)

• s: The input string
• chars (optional): A set of characters to remove as trailing characters

Examples of rstrip() Method

Remove Trailing Whitespaces

s = "   Hello Python!     "
res = s.rstrip()
print(res)

   Hello Python!

Remove Custom Characters

If we have a string with various characters that we want to remove from end of the string.

s = '  ##*#Hello Python!#**##  '
# removes all occurrences of '#', '*', and ' ' 
# from the end of string
res = s.rstrip('#* ')
print(res)

  ##*#Hello Python!

Notes:

• rstrip('#* ') removes any #, *, and spaces from the end of string.
• It stops stripping characters from the end of string once it encounters a character that are not in the specified set of characters.

Remove Newline Characters

We can also remove the trailing newline characters (\n) from a string.

s = '\nHello Python!\n'
# Removing newline characters
# from the end of string
res = s.rstrip()
print(res)

Hello Python!