vince spicer wrote:
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> regex will do it
>
>
> import re
>
> line = re.sub(r"\s+", "\t", line)
>
> print line
The above replaces the newline, which reminds me that even seemingly
trivial uses of 're' can become not-so-trivial in a hurry.
In [1]: import re
In [2]: line = '1 2 3 4 5\n'
In [3]: re.sub('\s+', '\t', line)
Out[3]: '1\t2\t3\t4\t5\t'
Maybe this is closer to your intent, but I refuse to guarantee it ;)
Better to stick with str methods whenever possible.
In [4]: re.sub('[ ]+', '\t', line)
Out[4]: '1\t2\t3\t4\t5\n'
HTH,
Marty
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