Tim wrote: > Hello, > after reading the responses to athread in 2004 [1] I am wondering why there is > no easy function in python to remove all white spaces from a string. > > Like: > > " i am very fine " > to > "iamveryfine" > > In IDL there's just one simple function which does this: STRCOMPRESS [2]. > > Is there really not yet such a function in Python? > > If not I created it: > > a = " i am very fine " > > > def strcompress(mystring): > ... mystring_compressed = ''.join(mystring.split()) > ... return mystring_compressed > > strcompress(a) > 'iamveryfine' > > Thanks for your input, > Timmie > > [1] Re: how to strip whitespaces from a string. > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tutor/18622 > > [2] STRCOMPRESS http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/idl_html_help/STRCOMPRESS.html
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