On Jul 9, 9:38 am, Beliavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I replace multiple consecutive spaces in a file with a single > character (usually a space, but maybe a comma if converting to a CSV > file)? Ideally, the Python program would not compress consecutive > spaces inside single or double quotes. An inelegant method is to > repeatedly replace two consecutive spaces with one.
Split with no arguments splits on whitespace, and multiple spaces count as but a single separator. So split+join = collapsed whitespace. >>> test = "a b c d efdd slkj sdfdsfl" >>> " ".join(test.split()) 'a b c d efdd slkj sdfdsfl' Or use something other than " " to join with, such as ",". >>> ",".join(test.split()) 'a,b,c,d,efdd,slkj,sdfdsfl' -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
