Hi John,
what do you think about this?
def InplaceReplace(filename):
lines = open(filename, 'r').readlines()
lines = [line.replace(' ', '') for line in lines]
open(filename, 'wt').writelines(lines)
It works well on so small files.
Yours sincerely,
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> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 22:33:18 +0100
> From: "John Corry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Tutor] Space the final frontier!
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> Dear All,
> I am having difficulty removing white spaces from my file. The file is
999
> lines long and looks like the sample below:
> 001, new field,dial= 028 90 79 0154, dial=
> 002, borfiled, dial= 02890 618521, dial=
> 003, newcomp, dial=02890419689, dial=
> The program, I am using to import the file does not like the spaces
around
> the numbers. The number should look like the "dial=02890419689" in the
> third line. Thus the sample above should look like:
> 001,newfield,dial=02890790154,dial=
> 002,borfiled,dial=02890618521,dial=
> 003,newcomp,dial=02890419689,dial=
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