Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-24 Thread cokofreedom
On Jan 24, 8:21 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 23, 6:30 pm, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 9:50 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven D'Aprano, you are a prick. And your reasons for coming to that stridently expressed conclusion after reading a

RE: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-24 Thread Reedick, Andrew
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Machin Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:48 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Stripping whitespace On Jan 24, 7:57 am, Reedick, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why

Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread ryan k
Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and basically replace all the whitespace between them with one space so i could just do lala.split(). Thank you! Ryan Kaskel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:50:02 -0800, ryan k wrote: Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and basically replace all the whitespace between them with one space so i could just do lala.split(). Thank you! You *can* just do

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Rubin
ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and basically replace all the whitespace between them with one space so i could just do lala.split(). Thank you! import re s = 'LNAME PASTAZONE'

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread James Matthews
Using the split method is the easiest! On 23 Jan 2008 19:04:38 GMT, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:50:02 -0800, ryan k wrote: Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and basically

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread ryan k
On Jan 23, 2:04 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:50:02 -0800, ryan k wrote: Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and basically replace all the whitespace between them with one space

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread ryan k
I am taking a database class so I'm not asking for specific answers. Well I have this text tile: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/115/projects/proj0/customer.txt And this code: # Table and row classes used for queries class Row(object): def __init__(self, column_list, row_vals): print

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread John Machin
On Jan 24, 5:50 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and basically replace all the whitespace between them with one space so i could just do lala.split(). Thank you! Ryan Kaskel So when you

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread John Machin
On Jan 24, 6:05 am, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and basically replace all the whitespace between them with one space so i could just do

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread John Machin
On Jan 24, 6:17 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am taking a database class so I'm not asking for specific answers. Well I have this text tile: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/115/projects/proj0/customer.txt Uh-huh, column-aligned output. And this code: [snip] Because the addresses

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread ryan k
On Jan 23, 2:53 pm, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 6:17 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am taking a database class so I'm not asking for specific answers. Well I have this text tile: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/115/projects/proj0/customer.txt Uh-huh,

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread John Machin
On Jan 24, 6:57 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So yea i will just have to count dashes. Read my lips: *you* counting dashes is dumb. Writing your code so that *code* is counting dashes each time it opens the file is smart. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread ryan k
On Jan 23, 3:02 pm, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 6:57 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So yea i will just have to count dashes. Read my lips: *you* counting dashes is dumb. Writing your code so that *code* is counting dashes each time it opens the file is smart. Okay

RE: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread Reedick, Andrew
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ryan k Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:24 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Stripping whitespace On Jan 23, 3:02 pm, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 6:57 am

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread John Machin
On Jan 24, 7:23 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 23, 3:02 pm, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 6:57 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So yea i will just have to count dashes. Read my lips: *you* counting dashes is dumb. Writing your code so that *code* is

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:05:01 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and basically replace all the whitespace between them with one space so i could just do lala.split().

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread ryan k
On Jan 23, 5:37 pm, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:05:01 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and basically replace

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread John Machin
On Jan 24, 7:57 am, Reedick, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that so many Python people are regex adverse? Use the dashed line as a regex. Convert the dashes to dots. Wrap the dots in parentheses. Convert the whitespace chars to '\s'. Presto! Simpler, cleaner code. Woo-hoo!

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread John Machin
On Jan 24, 9:47 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 23, 5:37 pm, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:05:01 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread ryan k
On Jan 23, 5:37 pm, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:05:01 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and basically replace

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread John Machin
On Jan 24, 9:50 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven D'Aprano, you are a prick. And your reasons for coming to that stridently expressed conclusion after reading a posting that was *not* addressed to you are .? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stripping whitespace

2008-01-23 Thread ryan k
On Jan 23, 6:30 pm, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 9:50 am, ryan k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven D'Aprano, you are a prick. And your reasons for coming to that stridently expressed conclusion after reading a posting that was *not* addressed to you are .? Because his