Strip spaces/tabs/newlines - python
python, python-2.7, string, strip
Solution
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:
>>> myString.split()
['I', 'want', 'to', 'Remove', 'all', 'white', 'spaces,', 'new', 'lines', 'and', 'tabs']
Use `str.join` on the returned list to get this output:
>>> ' '.join(myString.split())
'I want to Remove all white spaces, new lines and tabs'
Problem
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?