join()

[franzferdinand]

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()
['the', 'weather', 'is', 'sunny', 'today']

But how do I do it using join() ?? Thanks

 

[Wolfgang Maier]

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()
['the', 'weather', 'is', 'sunny', 'today']

But how do I do it using join() ?? Thanks

I guess you mean: how can I re-generate a string from my list of sub-strings,
where each element is separated by only a single space.

' '.join(raw.split())

join is a string method that can take a list of strings to join as its argument.
Best,
Wolfgang

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

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()
['the', 'weather', 'is', 'sunny', 'today']

But how do I do it using join() ?? Thanks

First you split the string into a list of words, using the split method,
just as you do above. Then you join the list of words back into a single
string, using the joint method.

Hint:

"+".join(['the', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox'])

=> "the+quick+brown+fox"


Does that give you enough of a hint?

 

[Mark Lawrence]

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()
['the', 'weather', 'is', 'sunny', 'today']

But how do I do it using join() ?? Thanks

' '.join(raw.split())

 

[franzferdinand]

Yeah it works. Thank you everybody!

 

[Tim Chase]

Then you join the list of words back
into a single string, using the joint method.

Sometimes when I see people make spelling errors, I wonder what they
were smoking. Sometimes, it's more obvious... ;-)

-tkc

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

Sometimes when I see people make spelling errors, I wonder what they
were smoking. Sometimes, it's more obvious... ;-)

Oh please, I think it's quite cruel to make fun of me for making a
perfectly innocent slip of the tongue here, when it's quite obvious I
meant my mother.


Sometimes-a-cigar-is-just-a-phallic-symbol-ly y'rs,