Stripping whitespace

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:50:02 -0800, ryan k wrote:

> Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME
> PASTA               ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and
> basically replace all the whitespace between them with one space so i
> could just do lala.split(). Thank you!

You *can* just do ``lala.split()``:

In [97]: lala = 'LNAME           PASTA               ZONE'

In [98]: lala.split()
Out[98]: ['LNAME', 'PASTA', 'ZONE']

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch