Strip spaces tabs newlines - python

Question

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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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'<!DOCTYPE html>\r\n\r\n\r\n    <html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/QAPage" class="html__responsive">\r\n\r\n    <head>\r\n\r\n        <title>string - Strip spaces/tabs/newlines - python - Stack Overflow</title>\r\n        <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:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/QAPage" class="html__responsive"> <head> <title>string - Strip spaces/tabs/newlines - python - Stack Overflow</title>

The precise regex that @MattH had mentioned, was what worked for me in fitting it into my code. Thanks!

Note: This is python3

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

If you want to remove multiple whitespace items and replace them with single spaces  the easiest way is with a regexp like this    gt  gt  gt  import re  gt  gt  gt  myString  I want to Remove all white  t spaces  new lines  n and tabs  t   gt  gt  gt  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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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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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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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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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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