split()

maxsplit parameter

.split(maxsplit=1)

This maxsplit parameter determines max number of splits to perform. Default is -1 but if you set value like 1, split operation will be done only once and hence, maxsplit (literally). So it will create at most 2 substrings. If I have a string like

hey = "I love eating pizza and pasta."
print(hey.split())          # Output: ['I', 'love', 'eating', 'pizza', 'and', 'pasta.']
print(hey.split(maxsplit=1))  # Output: ['I', 'love eating pizza and pasta.']

strip()

This, unlike split(), removes any leading or trailing whitespaces in the string like

String sample = "   hola  "

replace()

If there is a certain char I want to replace or even remove, we can use .replace() like

string.replace(“some char you want to replace/remove”, “”)