Re: File Reading related query

[Tim Chase]

I am talking about text file which contain multiple lines e.g following

three lines are there in my textfile.txt
>
this is python list
where we get support
from geeks
>
I want
>
sentence = this is python list where we get support from geeks
>
whereas when i use simple read() i get something like this
>
sentence = this is python list\nwhere we get support\nfrom geeks

You mean

sentence = myfile.read().r eplace('\n', ' ')

?

If you want to compact multiple spaces, such as

this is the python__
list where__
__we get support

(where "_" represents a space) and you want that to become

this is the python list where we get support

you'd have to use slightly more intelligent processing, and
explain the behavior you'd want if more than one blank line was
encountered. But for a first pass:

import re
r = re.compile(r"\s *\n")

sentence = r.sub(" ", myfile.read())

-tkc