Stripping whitespace

[John Machin]

On Jan 24, 9:47 am, ryan k <r... at ryankaskel.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 5:37 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
>
>
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> cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:05:01 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
> > > ryan k <r... at ryankaskel.com> writes:
> > >> 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!
>
> > > import re
> > > s = 'LNAME  PASTA        ZONE'
> > > re.split('\s+', s)
>
> > Please tell me you're making fun of the poor newbie and didn't mean to
> > seriously suggest using a regex merely to split on whitespace?
>
> > >>> import timeit
> > >>> timeit.Timer("s.split()", "s = 'one   two  three     four'").repeat()
>
> > [1.4074358940124512, 1.3505148887634277, 1.3469438552856445]>>> timeit.Timer("re.split('\s+', s)", "import re;s = 'one   two
>
> > three     four'").repeat()
> > [7.9205508232116699, 7.8833441734313965, 7.9301259517669678]
>
> > --
> > Steven
>
> The main topic is not an issue anymore.

We know that. This thread will continue with biffo and brickbats long
after your assignment has been submitted :-)