Strip spaces tabs newlines - python

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I am trying to remove all spaces tabs newlines in python 2 7 on Linux   I wrote this  that should do the job       myString  I want to Remove all white  t spaces  new lines  n and tabs  t  myString   myString strip    n t   print myString   output   I want to Remove all white   spaces  new lines   and tabs   It seems like a simple thing to do  yet I am missing here something  Should I be importing something

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If you want to remove multiple whitespace items and replace them with single spaces, the easiest way is with a regexp like this:

>>> import re
>>> myString="I want to Remove all white \t spaces, new lines \n and tabs \t"
>>> re.sub('\s+',' ',myString)
'I want to Remove all white spaces, new lines and tabs '

You can then remove the trailing space with .strip() if you want to.

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The above solutions suggesting the use of regex aren t ideal because this is such a small task and regex requires more resource overhead than the simplicity of the task justifies    Here s what I do   myString   myString replace          replace   t       replace   n        or if you had a bunch of things to remove such that a single line solution would be gratuitously long   removal list           t     n   for s in removal list    myString   myString replace s

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Since there is not anything else that was more intricate  I wanted to share this as it helped me out     This is what I originally used   import requests import re  url    https   stackoverflow com questions 10711116 strip-spaces-tabs-newlines-python    noqa headers     user-agent    my-app 0 0 1   r   requests get url  headers headers  print      format r content     Undesired Result   b  lt  DOCTYPE html gt  r n r n r n     lt html itemscope itemtype  http   schema org QAPage  class  html  responsive  gt  r n r n     lt head gt  r n r n         lt title gt string - Strip spaces tabs newlines - python - Stack Overflow lt  title gt  r n         lt link   This is what I changed it to   import requests import re  url    https   stackoverflow com questions 10711116 strip-spaces-tabs-newlines-python    noqa headers     user-agent    my-app 0 0 1   r   requests get url  headers headers  regex   r  s   print  CNT      format re sub regex       r content decode  utf-8        Desired Result    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html itemscope itemtype  http   schema org QAPage  class  html  responsive  gt   lt head gt   lt title gt string - Strip spaces tabs newlines - python - Stack Overflow lt  title gt    The precise regex that  MattH had mentioned  was what worked for me in fitting it into my code   Thanks     Note  This is python3

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Use the re library  import re myString    I want to Remove all white  t spaces  new lines  n and tabs  t  myString   re sub r   n t s         myString  print myString   Output      IwanttoRemoveallwhitespaces newlinesandtabs

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Use str split  sep   maxsplit    with no sep or sep None   From docs      If sep is not specified or is None  a different splitting algorithm is   applied  runs of consecutive whitespace are regarded as a single   separator  and the result will contain no empty strings at the start   or end if the string has leading or trailing whitespace    Demo    gt  gt  gt  myString split     I    want    to    Remove    all    white    spaces     new    lines    and    tabs     Use str join on the returned list to get this output    gt  gt  gt      join myString split     I want to Remove all white spaces  new lines and tabs

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import re  mystr    I want to Remove all white  t spaces  new lines  n and tabs  t  print re sub r  W       mystr   Output   IwanttoRemoveallwhitespacesnewlinesandtabs

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This will only remove the tab  newlines  spaces and nothing else    import re myString    I want to Remove all white  t spaces  new lines  n and tabs  t  output     re sub r   n t s         myString    OUTPUT       IwantoRemoveallwhiespaces newlinesandtabs   Good day

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How about a one-liner using a list comprehension within join   gt  gt  gt  foobar    quot aaa bbb t t tccc nddd quot   gt  gt  gt  print foobar  aaa bbb                 ccc ddd   gt  gt  gt  print    join  c for c in foobar if c not in         t     n      aaabbbcccddd

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