Re: compound strip() string problem

2005-04-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
use re module instead: import re s = "helo world niceday" res = re.split("\s+",s) print res result: ['helo', 'world', 'nice', 'day'] Sincerely Yours, Pujo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: compound strip() string problem

2005-04-10 Thread Tony Meyer
> As Sidharth Kuruvila pointed out, time.strftime() is probably > the best choice for your situation. For the general case of > removing whitespace from a sting, one method is: > > ''.join(mystring.split()) Alternatively, you could do something like: import string for c in string.whitespace:

Re: compound strip() string problem

2005-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Froman
Dylan Wilson wrote: > Now i need to compond that string remove the whitespace if you will.Well > i read up on strip(), lstrip() and rstrip() and all i could deduce was > that they striped the whitespace from the start and/or end of the > string.But I tried that anyway and failed.Is there an easier

Re: compound strip() string problem

2005-04-08 Thread Sidharth Kuruvila
The time module has a function called 'strftime' which can retyrn the time in the the format you want to. So you really don't need to parse the string returned by asctime the way you are doing. On Apr 8, 2005 6:01 PM, Dylan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to python and i have a