[Tutor] function for removing all white spaces from a string

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007, Alan Gauld wrote:
>
>"Tim" <timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de> wrote
>
>> after reading the responses to athread in 2004 [1] I am wondering 
>> why there is
>> no easy function in python to remove all white spaces from a string.
>>
>> " i am very fine "
>> to
>> "iamveryfine"
>
>You can use string.replace.
>
>>>> 'I am very fine'.replace(' ','')
>'Iamveryfine'
>>>>
>
>But you need to apply several times if you want more than simple 
>spaces removed.
>
>Or you can use regexs. (Or the translate function might work too, but 
>i haven't
>tried it for this)

import re
whitespace = re.compile(r'\s+')
cleanstring = whitespace.sub('', dirtystring)

Bill
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