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Re: join()

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On 20/03/2013 14:05, franzferdinand wrote:
> I'm doing this "Write code that removes whitespace at the beginning
> and end of a string, and normalizes whitespace between words to be a
> single space character"
>
> I can do it using split()
>
>>>> raw = "      the     weather is     sunny                  today       "
>>>> raw.split()
> ['the', 'weather', 'is', 'sunny', 'today']
>
> But how do I do it using join() ?? Thanks
>

' '.join(raw.split())

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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence

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join() franzferdinand <melo.dumoulin@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-20 07:05 -0700
  Re: join() Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2013-03-20 14:34 +0000
  Re: join() Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-20 14:39 +0000
    Re: join() Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-03-20 10:54 -0500
      Re: join() Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-20 18:44 +0000
  Re: join() Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-03-20 14:44 +0000
    Re: join() franzferdinand <melo.dumoulin@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-20 07:46 -0700

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