aligning text with space-normalized text

[John Machin]

Steven Bethard wrote:
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> And it appears to work:
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> But it seems somewhat inelegant.  Can anyone see an easier/cleaner/more 
> Pythonic way[1] of writing this code?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> STeVe
> 
> [1] Yes, I'm aware that these are subjective terms.  I'm looking for 
> subjectively "better" solutions. ;)

Perhaps you should define "work" before you worry about """subjectively 
"better" solutions""".

If "work" is meant to detect *all* possibilities of 'chunks' not having 
been derived from 'text' in the described manner, then it doesn't work 
-- all information about the positions of the whitespace is thrown away 
by your code.

For example, text = 'foo bar', chunks = ['foobar']