Title: Strip Whitespace
Slug: stripe_whitespace
Summary: How to strip whitespace to clean unstructured text data for machine learning in Python.
Date: 2016-09-06 12:00
Category: Machine Learning
Tags: Preprocessing Text

Authors: Chris Albon

Create Text



In [1]:

    
# Create text
text_data = ['   Interrobang. By Aishwarya Henriette     ',
             'Parking And Going. By Karl Gautier',
             '    Today Is The night. By Jarek Prakash   ']

Remove Whitespace



In [2]:

    
# Strip whitespaces
strip_whitespace = [string.strip() for string in text_data]

# Show text
strip_whitespace









    Out[2]:





['Interrobang. By Aishwarya Henriette',
 'Parking And Going. By Karl Gautier',
 'Today Is The night. By Jarek Prakash']