Hello, 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.
Like: " i am very fine " to "iamveryfine" In IDL there's just one simple function which does this: STRCOMPRESS [2]. Is there really not yet such a function in Python? If not I created it: a = " i am very fine " def strcompress(mystring): ... mystring_compressed = ''.join(mystring.split()) ... return mystring_compressed strcompress(a) 'iamveryfine' Thanks for your input, Timmie [1] Re: how to strip whitespaces from a string. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tutor/18622 [2] STRCOMPRESS http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/idl_html_help/STRCOMPRESS.html _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
