Le Fri, 08 May 2009 13:03:47 -0400, pyt...@bdurham.com s'exprima ainsi: [...] > Approaches: > 1. split text to list of lines that get stripped then: > a. walk this list building a new list of lines that track and > ignore extra blank lines > -OR- > b. re-join lines and replace '\n\n\n' wth' \n\n' until no more > '\n\n\n' matches exist > 2. use regular expressions to match and replace whitespace > pattern of 3 or more adjacent \n's with surrounding whitespace > 3. a 3rd party text processing library designed for efficiently > cleaning up text > Thanks!
You should try 1a and 1b if only to have written the code at least once ;-) The set of python string methods is very complete and practicle. Still, in this case, 2 is rather straightforward and simple. If you cannot figure out the proper pattern, have a look at http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ and/or ask again the list. Denis ------ la vita e estrany _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
