[Tutor] function for removing all white spaces from a string

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Tim wrote:
> Hello,
> after reading the responses to athread in 2004 [1] I am wondering why there is
> no easy function in python to remove all white spaces from a string.
> 
> Like:
> 
> " i am very fine "
> to
> "iamveryfine"
> 
> In IDL there's just one simple function which does this: STRCOMPRESS [2].
> 
> Is there really not yet such a function in Python?
> 
> If not I created it:
> 
> a = " i am very fine "
> 
> 
> def strcompress(mystring):
> ...     mystring_compressed = ''.join(mystring.split())
> ...     return mystring_compressed
> 
>  strcompress(a)
> 'iamveryfine'
> 
> Thanks for your input,
> Timmie
> 
> [1] Re: how to strip whitespaces from a string.
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tutor/18622
> 
> [2] STRCOMPRESS http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/idl_html_help/STRCOMPRESS.html

 ''.join(c for c in a if not c.isspace())