On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 02:27, David Mertz, Ph.D. <david.me...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It feels to me like "split on whitespace" or "remove whitespace" are
> quite common operations. I've been frustrated a number of times by
> settling for the ASCII whitespace class when I really wanted the
> Unicode whitespace class.
>
They are indeed, quite common. It's a good thing Python makes those easy.
>>> len("\u2000spam\u2001".strip())
4
>>> "spam\u2002ham".split()
['spam', 'ham']
ChrisA
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