get back my simple little string after re search and replace

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:12:31 -0300, Gontrand Trudau <cesium5500 at yahoo.ca>  
escribió:

> I have read the python doc pretty much, played around with python code,  
> but unable to get back my "string" after made my replacement with python  
> RE
>
> Here my string :
>
> ['email at msn.com                                   
> ;email at msn.com                               ;name,  
> firstname                ;info;2010-01-01T00:00:00']
>
> My objective is to remove all the white space except the one between the  
> name and the firstname, that is OK.

Is it enough to remove all whitespace preceding a ';'?

py> text = "email at msn.com                                  ;email at msn.com
                         ;name, firstname                 
;info;2010-01-01T00:00:0
0"
py> import re
py> re.sub('\s+;', ';', text)
'email at msn.com;email at msn.com;name, firstname;info;2010-01-01T00:00:00'

> I would just like to be able to do something like that :
>
> print match_obj
>
> and have the result of the modification I just did :
>
> email at msn.com','email at msn.com','name,  
> firstname','info','2010-01-01T00:00:00

Those single quotes are confusing -- they aren't in the original string as  
you posted it... Apart from that, my solution worked fine in this example.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina