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Strings & Text easy

Strip and Collapse Whitespace

Write a function that strips leading/trailing whitespace and collapses inner runs of whitespace to single spaces.

strings whitespace normalization

Strings & Text easy

Parse Log Line

Write a function that parses a log line and returns a dictionary with timestamp, level, and message.

string-parsing split strip

Strings & Text easy

Strip Leading Zeros

Write a function that strips leading zeros from a string representing a non-negative integer.

strings strip lstrip

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Strings & Text — Python coding challenges

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