Newbie regular expression and whitespace question

2005-09-22 Thread googleboy
Hi. I am trying to collapse an html table into a single line. Basically, anytime I seewith nothing but whitespace between them, I'd like to remove all the whitespace, including newlines. I've read the how-to and I have tried a bunch of things, but nothing seems to work for me: -- table =

Re: Newbie regular expression and whitespace question

2005-09-22 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
googleboy a écrit : Hi. I am trying to collapse an html table into a single line. Basically, anytime I seewith nothing but whitespace between them, I'd like to remove all the whitespace, including newlines. I've read the how-to and I have tried a bunch of things, but nothing seems to

Re: Newbie regular expression and whitespace question

2005-09-22 Thread Paul McGuire
googleboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. I am trying to collapse an html table into a single line. Basically, anytime I seewith nothing but whitespace between them, I'd like to remove all the whitespace, including newlines. I've read the how-to and I have

Re: Newbie regular expression and whitespace question

2005-09-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Paul McGuire wrote: If you're absolutely stuck on using RE's, then others will have to step forward. Meanwhile, here's a pyparsing solution (get pyparsing at http://pyparsing.sourceforge.net): so, let's see. using ... from pyparsing import * import re data = ... table example from op ...

Re: Newbie regular expression and whitespace question

2005-09-22 Thread George Sakkis
googleboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am trying to collapse an html table into a single line. Basically, anytime I seewith nothing but whitespace between them, I'd like to remove all the whitespace, including newlines. I've read the how-to and I have tried a bunch of things, but

Re: Newbie regular expression and whitespace question

2005-09-22 Thread googleboy
Thanks for the great positive responses. I was close with what I was trying, I guess, but close only counts in horseshoes and um.. something else that close counts in. :-) googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie regular expression and whitespace question

2005-09-22 Thread Paul McGuire
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snip - timing and sample code, comparing pyparsing (test3) with comparable regexp (test4) timeit -s import test test.test3() 100 loops, best of 3: 6.73 msec per loop timeit -s import test test.test4() 1 loops, best