John Machin wrote:
> > $ python2.4 -mtimeit -s "str = 'D c a V e r \" = d w o r d : 0 0 0 0 0 6
> > 4 0'" 'str.replace(" ", "")'
>
> Oi! The OP mentioned "whitespace" ...
yeah. but as is obvious from his examples, he really means "UTF-16", not
whitespace.
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