Why this happen when I strip a string starting or ending with new line character?

Question

n = "\n1\n2\n3\n4\n \n"
print("->" + n.strip() + "<-")
print("->" + n + "<-")

Shouldn't I have the same output when printing n and n.strip()?

Answer 1

Shouldn't I have the same output when printing n and n.strip()?

No, you shouldn't have the same output.

Python strip() removes the newlines from the string as they are considered to be whitespace characters.

See Python documentation on str.strip() and on string.whitespace :

string.whitespace A string containing all ASCII characters that are considered whitespace. This includes the characters space, tab, linefeed, return, formfeed, and vertical tab.