Hi Michael! Your suggestion is fantastic and is doing exactly what I was looking for! Thank you very much. There is something that I'm wondering though. Why is the solution you proposed wouldn't work with Unicode strings?
Olivier Langlois http://www.quazal.com > > 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 > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
