Ezio Melotti <[email protected]> added the comment:
> So I guess this brings me back to my original issue. I'm not looking
> for particularly advanced stripping. I just want to remove all
> whitespace and other non-printing characters.
.strip only strips whitespace. Stripping non-printing characters and
additional 'whitespace' is something that is too specific for a builtin method,
especially because people might disagree on the characters that are considered
whitespace and non-printing.
> Thus strip and isspace are now unusable methods in Python for common
> use cases. This seems unfortunate.
I believe they work fine for the common case -- in fact these methods have been
around for years and no one complained.
Also Unicode has a number of more or less space-like characters that are not
whitespace and whitespace chars that don't look like whitespace.
If one needs to strip a different set of (whitespace) chars, it's always
possible to pass it to .strip or to define a new function like
def mystrip(s):
return s.strip().strip(u'\u200B\ufeff')
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