Removal of whitespaces

[sashi2keng]

Hi,
I have a content like this in string

     sa
     sp
     sq

How can I remove the whitespaces so that it becomes:

sa
sp
sq

Using lstrip only trims the whitespace for the first one like this:

sa
    sp
    sq

Please suggest me a solution

Thanks,
Sashi.

[bvdet]

A general solution:

s = '''     sa
     sp
     sq'''

print "\n".join([item.strip() for item in s.split("\n")])

If you know how many spaces you need to remove:

print s.replace("\n     ", "\n").strip()

Using the re module:

import re

print re.sub(r"\n *", "\n", s).lstrip()

[sashi2keng]

Thanks a lot! The first solution worked.

Regards,
Sashi