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Re: Pythonic way to trim and keep leading and trailing whitespace
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3/23/2010 10:46:00 PM
Emile,
> target = ' spam and eggs '
> stripped = target.strip()
> replaced = target.replace(stripped,"<html>%s</html>" % stripped)
Brilliant! That's just the type of clever solution I was looking for.
Thank you!
Malcolm
----- Original message -----
From: "Emile van Sebille" <emile@fenx.com>
To: python-list@python.org
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:34:48 -0700
Subject: Re: Pythonic way to trim and keep leading and trailing
whitespace
On 3/23/2010 3:09 PM python@bdurham.com said...
> I'm looking for a pythonic way to trim and keep leading
> whitespace in a string.
>
> Use case: I have a bunch of text strings with various amounts of
> leading and trailing whitespace (spaces and tabs). I want to grab
> the leading and trailing whitespace, save it, surround the
> remaining text with html tags, and then add back the leading and
> trailing whitespace.
I'd do it this way:
target = ' spam and eggs '
stripped = target.strip()
replaced = target.replace(stripped,"<html>%s</html>" % stripped)
HTH,
Emile
>
> The only solution I can think of is regex, and that makes me
> think of the 2 proverbial problems that come with that :)
>
> Is there a 'better' solution than regex for this scenario? (Seems
> like this would be a common type of string processing).
>
> Thanks,
> Malcolm
>
>
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