Olivier Langlois wrote:
> I would like to make a string comparison that would return true without
> regards of the number of spaces and new lines chars between the words
>
> like 'A B\nC' = 'A\nB C'
>
import string
NULL = string.maketrans("","")
WHITE = string.whitespace
def compare(a,b):
"""Compare two strings, disregarding whitespace -> bool"""
return a.translate(NULL, WHITE) == b.translate(NULL, WHITE)
Here, str.translate deletes the characters in its optional second argument.
Note that this does not work with unicode strings.
Michael
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