Fredrik Lundh schreef: > John Machin wrote: > >>> $ python2.4 -mtimeit -s "str = 'D c a V e r \" = d w o r d : 0 0 0 0 0 6 >>> 4 0'" 'str.replace(" ", "")' >> Oi! The OP mentioned "whitespace" ... > > yeah. but as is obvious from his examples, he really means "UTF-16", not > whitespace.
Yes, that's what I was thinking. His data looks like a part of a Windows registry export, which at least on my system is in what Windows calls Unicode. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list