John Machin wrote:
> I'm happy enough with reassembling the second item. The problem is in
> reliably and correctly collapsing the whitespace in each of the above
> fiveelements. The standard Python idiom of u' '.join(text.split())
> won't work because the text is Unicode and u'\xa0' is whitespace
> and would be converted to a space.
would this (or some variation of it) work?
>>> re.sub("[ \n\r\t]+", " ", u"foo\n frab\xa0farn")
u'foo frab\xa0farn'
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