How do I strip all leading and trailing punctuation in Python? [duplicate]

You do exactly what you mention in your question, you just str.strip it.

from string import punctuations = '.$ABC-799-99,#'print(s.strip(punctuation))

Output:

 ABC-799-99

str.strip can take multiple characters to remove.

If you just wanted to remove leading punctuation you could str.lstrip:

s.lstrip(punctuation)

Or rstrip any trailing punctuation:

 s.rstrip(punctuation)

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