Question

I have the following code.

html = urllib2.urlopen(
    'https://ebet.tab.co.nz/results/CHCG-reslt05070400.html').read()


soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
data = soup.findAll('div', {'class' : 'header bold'})
match = re.search('R', data[0].text)
race_title = data[0].text[(match.start()):]
race_title = str(race_title.strip(' \t\n\r'))
print race_title

The output I get on the screen in the console is below

Race 1 PEDIGREE ADVANCE SPRINT
                C0
                295 m

I thought strip would get rid of any type of spaces between SPRINT and C0 but obviously I am missing something so I need help understanding this result. Is it because the bs4 output the string in unicode or something?

Answer 1

strip() removes only leading or trailing characters. if you want to remove the newlines you should use replace("\n","")