ascii character - removing chars from string

[bruce]

hi...

update. i'm getting back html, and i'm getting strings like " foo  "
which is valid HTML as the ' ' is a space.

i need a way of stripping/removing the ' ' from the string

the   needs to be treated as a single char...

 text = "foo cat  "

 ie ok_text = strip(text)

 ok_text = "foo cat"

thanks

-bruce

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[mailto:python-list-bounces+bedouglas=earthlink.net at python.org]On Behalf
Of Rune Strand
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 5:43 PM
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Subject: Re: ascii character - removing chars from string


bruce wrote:
> hi...
>
> i'm running into a problem where i'm seeing non-ascii chars in the parsing
> i'm doing. in looking through various docs, i can't find functions to
> remove/restrict strings to valid ascii chars.
>
> i'm assuming python has something like
>
> valid_str = strip(invalid_str)
>
> where 'strip' removes/strips out the invalid chars...
>
> any ideas/thoughts/pointers...

If you're able to define the invalid_chars, the most convenient is
probably to use the strip() method:
>>> a_string = "abcdef"
>>> invalid_chars = 'abc'
>>> a_string.strip(invalid_chars)
'def'

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