Best way to clean up list items?

[Jussi Piitulainen]

DFS writes:

> Have: list1 = ['\r\n   Item 1  ','  Item 2  ','\r\n  ']
> Want: list1 = ['Item 1','Item 2']
>
>
> I wrote this, which works fine, but maybe it can be tidier?
>
> 1. list2 = [t.replace("\r\n", "") for t in list1]   #remove \r\n
> 2. list3 = [t.strip(' ') for t in list2]            #trim whitespace
> 3. list1  = filter(None, list3)                     #remove empty items
>
> After each step:
>
> 1. list2 = ['   Item 1  ','  Item 2  ','  ']   #remove \r\n
> 2. list3 = ['Item 1','Item 2','']              #trim whitespace
> 3. list1 = ['Item 1','Item 2']                 #remove empty items

Try filter(None, (t.strip() for t in list1)). The default.

Funny-looking data you have.