Strip starting and trailing whitespace from environment values

[vandorjw]

Can a flag be added to remove/ignore whitespace from environment values?

In the example below, I denoted spaces with ‧ and a new line with ¶:

• env‧value1‧ -> env‧value1
• ‧env‧value2 -> env‧value2
• env‧val¶ -> env‧val

On a few different projects I've hit a bug where everything looks correct but the difficult to spot whitespace is causes a problem.

I think by default, we would want such a flag to be off, as some uses might legitimately have a trailing space, tab, or line-break in their values.

[ethanthopkins]

I'm interested in this and will start working on it. Can this please be assigned to me?

[ethanthopkins]

I think this needs to be implemented at both the class and method level. Class, so the user has the option to enable it across the board (defaulted to False) but also at the method level for each retrieval of each data type so the user can override whatever their choice was for specific variables.