The strip method is actually used to strip off the white spaces from the input string. By default, the strip method will strip off the spaces from both the left and right sides of the string and will return a new string without spaces on both the leading and trailing sides, as shown in the following screenshot:

However, if we only wish to strip off the left spaces ,we can use the lstrip() method. Similarly, if we just wish to strip off the right spaces, we can use the rstrip() method. This is shown as follows: