From: Mark  Watson <mark.watson@...>
Date: 2009-01-10T05:24:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: most efficient way to remove duplicate spaces in a string?

On Jan 9, 11:20 am, Mark  Watson <mark.wat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't usually worry too much about efficiency unless runtime
> performance becomes an issue so I use a_string.split.join(' ') to
> remove extra spaces because the code is short and readable.
>
> This is certainly inefficient. What is the fastest idiom for this
> operation?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

Thanks to everyone who responded!

Best regards,
Mark