Stefan Behnel wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>
>> On Jan 19, 11:00 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> John Machin wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm happy enough with reassembling the second item. The problem is in
>>>> reliably and correctly collapsing the whitespace in each of the above
>>>>
>>> > fiveelements. The standard Python idiom of u' '.join(text.split())
>>> > won't work because the text is Unicode and u'\xa0' is whitespace
>>>
>>>
>>>> and would be converted to a space.
>>>>
>>> would this (or some variation of it) work?
>>>
>>> >>> re.sub("[ \n\r\t]+", " ", u"foo\n frab\xa0farn")
>>> u'foo frab\xa0farn'
>>>
>>> </F>
>>>
>> Yes, partially. Leading and trailing whitespace has to be removed
>> entirely, not replaced by one space.
>>
>
> Sounds like adding a .strip() to me ...
>
>
>
Sounds like adding a .strip(u' ') to me, otherwise any leading/trailing
u'\xa0' gets blown away and this must not happen.
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