whitespace

[Geoff Gerrietts]

Quoting RR (rr84 at 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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