Pandas Series str | rstrip method
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Pandas Series str.rstrip(~) method removes the combination of the specified characters that appear from the right of each string in the Series.
Note that a new Series is returned, and the original is kept intact.
Parameters
1. to_strip | str or None | optional
The combination of the characters of to_strip that appears at the back of each string will be removed. For instance, if to_strip="ab", then Aab and Aba will both become A.
By default, trailing whitespaces (including newlines and tabs) will be removed.
Return value
A new Series or Index.
Examples
Basic usage
By default, rstrip(~) removes trailing whitespaces (including newlines and tabs):
0 1 a a2 a3 adtype: object
To confirm that the whitespaces have indeed been stripped, we print the length of each string:
0 01 32 13 1dtype: int64
Specifying to_strip
To remove a combination of the characters "ab" at the back:
s.str.rstrip("ab")
0 A1 Adtype: object
