String help

[RiGGa]

Daniel Yoo wrote:

> Rigga <Rigga at hasnomail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> : I am having problems when it comes to data in the file that wraps
> : over two lines i.e.
> :
> : las -
> :        lomas
> :
> : What i want to be able to do is to some how strip all the spaces from it
> : so while it is contained as a variable so it equal 'las - lomas'
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Rigga,
> 
> Are you stripping as you're reading the file, line by line, or are you
> calling strip() at the very end?  Without seeing code, it's a little
> hard to tell what you're doing.
> 
> 
> : I have tried it using the string.strip(myvariable,"") however that
> : doesnt appear to do anything.
> 
> Ah, ok.  string.strip() is deprecated, so you probably shouldn't use
> it.
> 
> (... And, also, it is being misused.  The delimiter -- the second
> argument to string.strip() --- has to be nonempty to have any real
> effect.)
> 
> 
> Instead, you can just use the strip() method of strings.  For example:
> 
> ###
>>>> msg = "     hello world     "
>>>> msg.strip()
> 'hello world'
>>>> msg.lstrip()
> 'hello world     '
>>>> msg.rstrip()
> '     hello world'
> ###
> 
> 
> See:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/lib/string-methods.html
> 
> for a comprehensive list of the methods that a string can support.
> 
> 
> Good luck!
Heres what I did..

As you are aware my variable contained data split over 2 lines as shown
below:

myvariable = "las -
                        lomas"

I then did the following to 'clean' it up:

splitvariable = string.split(myvariable)      # yields ("las" "-" "lomas")
cleanvariable = string.join(splitvariable, " ")    # yields "las - lomas"

Hope this helps others. Not sure if its the correct or cleanest way to do it
but hey it worked!

Thanks

Rigga