• To remove trailing and leading white spaces from a string, include a white space before the Welcome and a leading space after the Python:

message = " Welcome To Python "
message = message.strip()

• To get the length of a string, do the following:

ip_address = '10.0.1.1'
string_length = len(ip_address)

• To split a string and return the value in a list, do the following:

ips= "10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2"
ips_splitted = ips.split(',')
print ips_splitted[0]