<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:49 PM, dasacc22 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dasacc22@gmail.com">dasacc22@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi<br>
<br>
This is a simple question. I'm looking for the fastest way to<br>
calculate the leading whitespace (as a string, ie ' ').<br>
<br>
Here are some different methods I have tried so far<br>
--- solution 1<br>
<br>
a = ' some content\n'<br>
b = a.strip()<br>
c = ' '*(len(a)-len(b))<br></blockquote><div><br>use lstrip if you want to remove leading whitespaces only.<br>strip removes trailing white spaces too<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
--- solution 2<br>
<br>
a = ' some content\n'<br>
b = a.strip()<br>
c = a.partition(b[0])[0]<br>
<br>
--- solution 3<br>
<br>
def get_leading_whitespace(s):<br>
def _get():<br>
for x in s:<br>
if x != ' ':<br>
break<br>
yield x<br>
return ''.join(_get())<br></blockquote><div><br>why do you need a generator (and as you mentioned the extra function call overheads)?<br><br>How about this?<br><br>def get_leading_whitespaces(s):<br> count = 0<br>
for c in s:<br> if c != ' ': break<br> count += 1<br> return ' ' * count<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br>
Solution 1 seems to be about as fast as solution 2 except in certain<br>
circumstances where the value of b has already been determined for<br>
other purposes. Solution 3 is slower due to the function overhead.<br>
<br>
Curious to see what other types of solutions people might have.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Daniel<br>
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