whitespace

[RR]

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

[Peter Otten]

RR wrote:

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

import string
"a b c".translate(string.maketrans("", ""), string.whitespace) 'abc'

Peter

[Geoff Gerrietts]

Quoting RR (rr**@cornell.edu):

Is there an easy way in python to remove whitespace from a string?
Depending on what you mean by "remove whitespace":

mystring = " a b c d e f g "
mystring.strip() 'a b c d e f g' import re
re.sub("\s+", "", mystring)

'abcdefg'

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[Tim Rowe]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:35:54 -0400, "RR" <rr**@cornell.edu> wrote:

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

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
'hellothereworld'

Though there may be an easier way.

[Peter Hansen]

RR wrote:

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

' string with whitespace '.strip()

'string with whitespace'

-Peter

[Hung Jung Lu]

"RR" <rr**@cornell.edu> wrote in message news:<pa****************************@cornell.edu>. ..

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

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

'helloworld'

Hung Jung