python removing whitespace from string in a list

Question

I have a list of lists. I want to remove the leading and trailing spaces from them. The strip() method returns a copy of the string without leading and trailing

Answer 1

This generates a new list:

>>> x = ['a', 'b ', ' c  ']
>>> map(str.strip, x)
['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> 

Edit: No need to import string when you use the built-in type (str) instead.