Michael Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
With unicode, you could do something strictly equivalent, as follows:
nowhite = dict.fromkeys(ord(c) for c in string.whitespace)
and then
return a.translate(nowhite) == b.translate(nowhite)
Alex
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