Best way to clean up list items?
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Mon May 2 12:33:01 EDT 2016
Have: list1 = ['\r\n Item 1 ',' Item 2 ','\r\n ']
Want: list1 = ['Item 1','Item 2']
I wrote this, which works fine, but maybe it can be tidier?
1. list2 = [t.replace("\r\n", "") for t in list1] #remove \r\n
2. list3 = [t.strip(' ') for t in list2] #trim whitespace
3. list1 = filter(None, list3) #remove empty items
After each step:
1. list2 = [' Item 1 ',' Item 2 ',' '] #remove \r\n
2. list3 = ['Item 1','Item 2',''] #trim whitespace
3. list1 = ['Item 1','Item 2'] #remove empty items
Thanks!
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