String comparison question

[Olivier Langlois]

Hi Michael!

Your suggestion is fantastic and is doing exactly what I was looking
for! Thank you very much.
There is something that I'm wondering though. Why is the solution you
proposed wouldn't work with Unicode strings?

Olivier Langlois
http://www.quazal.com
> 
> import string
> NULL = string.maketrans("","")
> WHITE = string.whitespace
> 
> def compare(a,b):
>      """Compare two strings, disregarding whitespace -> bool"""
>      return a.translate(NULL, WHITE) == b.translate(NULL, WHITE)
> 
> Here, str.translate deletes the characters in its optional second
> argument.
> Note that this does not work with unicode strings.
> 
> Michael
> 
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