Is this the same code points identified by `str.isspace`?
Thanks for doing that. I would have soon otherwise. Still, "most of them"
isn't actually a precise answer for an uncertain string. :-)
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 8:57 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 5:53 PM Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas <
> python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
>
>> > To be fair, I also don't know which of those split on str.split() with
>> no arguments to the method either.
>>
>
> I couldn't resist -- the answer is most of them:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> weird_spaces = ("x\u0020x\u00A0x\u1680x\u180Ex\u2000x\u2001x\u2002"
> "x\u2003x\u2004x\u2005x\u2006x\u2007x\u2008x\u2009"
> "x\u200Ax\u200Bx\u202Fx\u205Fx\u3000x\uFEFFx")
> print(weird_spaces)
> splitted = weird_spaces.split()
> print(splitted)
>
> print(len(weird_spaces))
> print(len(splitted))
>
> $ python weird_spaces.py
> x x x xx x x x x x x x x x x xx x x xx
> ['x', 'x', 'x', 'x\u180ex', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x',
> 'x', 'x\u200bx', 'x', 'x', 'x\ufeffx']
> 41
> 18
>
> -CHB
>
>
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