Re: Easy Problem

2009/9/1 Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear <at> gmail.com>:
>>>> txt = "Hi          how are you?"
>>>> " ".join(txt.strip().split())
> 'Hi how are you?'

txt.strip() only remove leading and trailing white space so does
nothing in your example. However it works because txt.split() removes
the excessive white space between the text.

>>> txt
'Hi          how are you?'
>>> ' '.join(txt.split())
'Hi how are you?'

Greets
Sander
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