Removing whitespace

[Shae Erisson]

pauljolly at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Firstly, apologies for all the questions! However, extensive searching
> and reading of manuals has not helped me here. How does one remove
> whitespace characters from a string (using the re module)? I have tried
> using the re.compile('\s*') method, followed by the split() function
> but no success. Any help much appreciated with example code is possible.

I wouldn't use the re module.
I'd use strip function in the string module.
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