whitespace

[RR]

Is there an easy way in python to remove whitespace from a string?

[Peter Otten]

Re: whitespace

RR wrote:
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> Is there an easy way in python to remove whitespace from a string?[/color]
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>>> import string
>>> "a b c".translate(st ring.maketrans( "", ""), string.whitespa ce)[/color][/color][/color]
'abc'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

Peter

[Geoff Gerrietts]

Re: whitespace

Quoting RR (rr84@cornell.e du):[color=blue]
> Is there an easy way in python to remove whitespace from a string?[/color]

Depending on what you mean by "remove whitespace":
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>>> mystring = " a b c d e f g "
>>> mystring.strip( )[/color][/color][/color]
'a b c d e f g'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import re
>>> re.sub("\s+", "", mystring)[/color][/color][/color]
'abcdefg'

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[Tim Rowe]

Re: whitespace

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:35:54 -0400, "RR" <rr84@cornell.e du> wrote:
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>Is there an easy way in python to remove whitespace from a string?[/color]

From the ends or all of it?

From the ends,
" hello ".strip()
gives "hello"

There are lstrip and rstrip if you only want to strip from one end.

To get rid of all whitespace I'd probably do:

import string
string.join(" hello there world ".split(), "")

which gives
'hellothereworl d'

Though there may be an easier way.

[Peter Hansen]

Re: whitespace

RR wrote:[color=blue]
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> Is there an easy way in python to remove whitespace from a string?[/color]
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>>> ' string with whitespace '.strip()[/color][/color][/color]
'string with whitespace'

-Peter

[Hung Jung Lu]

Re: whitespace

"RR" <rr84@cornell.e du> wrote in message news:<pan.2003. 09.19.23.35.54. 334022@cornell. edu>...[color=blue]
> Is there an easy way in python to remove whitespace from a string?[/color]

' hello world '.replace(' ', '')

'helloworld'

Hung Jung