Python Remove last 3 characters of a string

Question

I\'m trying to remove the last 3 characters from a string in python, I don\'t know what these characters are so I can\'t use rstrip, I also need to remove any white

Answer 1

You might have misunderstood rstrip slightly, it strips not a string but any character in the string you specify.

Like this:

>>> text = "xxxxcbaabc"
>>> text.rstrip("abc")
'xxxx'

So instead, just use

text = text[:-3] 

(after replacing whitespace with nothing)