From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-07T03:35:54+09:00
Subject: Re: regex \s == \n???

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Hi --

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Mark Thomas wrote:

> On Feb 6, 9:37�am, Julian Leviston <jul...@coretech.net.au> wrote:
>> Can't you use squeeze?
>
> Best idea yet. Might as well use a built-in, rather than reinventing
> one.
>
> a.squeeze(" ")

See my earlier post in this thread. squeeze is a good candidate as
long as you don't mind preserving all non-" " whitespace, including
tabs.

(squeeze defaults to " " as its argument, so you don't have to provide
an argument unless it's something different.)


David

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