On Sep 13, 12:52 am, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > multipleSpaces = re.compile(u'\\h+')
>
> > importantTextString = '\n \n \n \t\t '
> > importantTextString = multipleSpaces.sub("M", importantTextString)
>
> what's "\\h" supposed to mean?Match *h*orizontal whitespace, I guess ... looks like the maintainer of the re equivalent in some other language has far too much spare time :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
