On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Ishan Puri<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I have 2 plain text documents that have uneven spacing. I need to make > these single spaced between lines and between words. Basically I need to get > them to be equal character length after I abridge the uneven spacing.
I don't know what you mean by "equal character length" here. > In > Python there is probably one simple command for this for a text file? How do > I do this? > E.G.: Hi how are you? > Fixed: Hi how are you? Another way to do this is with regular expressions, for example In [1]: import re In [2]: txt = "Hi how are you?" In [4]: txt = re.sub(r' +', ' ', txt) In [5]: txt Out[5]: 'Hi how are you?' You can also replace multiple newlines with single newlines. The details of that will depend on the line endings in your text; assuming \n for newline then you could use txt = re.sub(r'\n\n+', '\n', txt) to remove extra newlines. The split() method won't distinguish between spaces and newlines so you have to apply it one line at a time. The re.sub() method can work on the entire text at once. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
