googleboy a écrit : > Hi. > > I am trying to collapse an html table into a single line. Basically, > anytime I see ">" & "<" with nothing but whitespace between them, I'd > like to remove all the whitespace, including newlines. I've read the > how-to and I have tried a bunch of things, but nothing seems to work > for me: > > -- > > table = open(r'D:\path\to\tabletest.txt', 'rb') > strTable = table.read() > > #Below find the different sort of things I have tried, one at a time: > > strTable = strTable.replace(">\s<", "><") #I got this from the module > docs
From which module's doc ? ">\s<" is the litteral string ">\s<", not a regular expression. Please re-read the re module doc, and the re howto (you'll find a link to it in the re module's doc...) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list