Remove Leading and Trailing Whitespace with Pandas

Python
Data Preprocessing

 1|  #Remove Trailing Whitespace
 2|  
 3|  df['text'] = df['text'].apply(str.rstrip)
 4|  
 5|  #Remove Leading Whitespace
 6|  
 7|  df['text'] = df['text'].apply(str.lstrip)
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Tags: String | Lstrip | Whitespace | Rstrip
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