I am talking about text file which contain multiple lines e.g following
three lines are there in my textfile.txt
this is python list
where we get support
from geeks
I want
sentence = this is python list where we get support from geeks
whereas when i use simple read() i get something like this
sentence = this is python list\nwhere we get support\nfrom geeks
You mean
sentence = myfile.read().replace('\n', ' ')
?
If you want to compact multiple spaces, such as
this is the python__
list where__
__we get support
(where "_" represents a space) and you want that to become
this is the python list where we get support
you'd have to use slightly more intelligent processing, and
explain the behavior you'd want if more than one blank line was
encountered. But for a first pass:
import re
r = re.compile(r"\s*\n")
sentence = r.sub(" ", myfile.read())
-tkc
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