Malcolm Greene wrote: > Any suggestions for how to normalize and compress whitespace in a > string? > > By normalize I mean convert tabs and soft spaces (extended ascii code > 160) to spaces. > > By compress I mean replace all runs of 2 or more spaces (after the > normalization step) to a single space. > > I know I can use regular expressions to accomplish the above, but > thought that might be too heavy handed.
I would say it is appropriate. string.translate() can do the normalization but I would still use a regex to compress so you might as well do it all in a single re.sub(). Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
