[Python-ideas] New str whitespace cleaning method?

[Serhiy Storchaka]

21.05.13 15:07, Joao S. O. Bueno написав(ла):
> What about an STR method for just formatting whitespace?
>
> I propose starting with something that would just replace all occurrences of
> white-space sequences with a single white-space,

' '.join(text.split())

> and another mode that  does the same, but preserves newlines.

'\n'.join(' '.join(line.split()) for line in text.split('\n'))