Michael Spencer wrote: > a.split() == b.split() is a convenient test, provided you want to normalize > whitespace rather than ignore it. I took the OP's requirements to mean that > 'A B' == 'AB', but this is just a guess.
I'm sure someone has studied this in more detail, but intuitively, partially based on common mistakes when writing regular expressions, I'd say that when people talk about "any number of something", they mean "one or more" more often than not. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
