removing duplicate spaces from a string

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Rajarshi Guha <rajarshi at seed.chem.psu.edu> schrub:

> say the string is s, then you could proceed as follows:
> 
> o = ''
> s = string.split(s,' ')
> for i in s:
>   if (i != ' '):
>     o = o + i + ' '
> 
> This code segment will give you the final required ouput in o

But it is bad :-)

For every loop iteration, it produces two new string objects. And all 
except the last are just food for the garbage collection.

Join is just the better way.

markus
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