Replace one or more spaces in string with '\s+'

Asked Sep 21 '17 at 22:12

Active Sep 21 '17 at 22:28

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I would like to replace all spaces in string strings with '\s+'. Strings may have one or more spaces between words. The current code that I have tried is:

import nltk
string = 'jason   e   n robins inc'
tokenized = nltk.word_tokenize(string)
out = '\s+'.join(tokenized)
#expected: 'jason\s+e\s+n\s+robins\s+inc'
#get: 'jason\\s+e\\s+n\\s+robins\\s+inc'

The goal is to pass the output through a string parser:

import re
other_str = 'some other text where i want to split jason e n robins  inc off the end with other text'
final_output = re.split(other_text, out)[0]

Thanks for your help.

edited Sep 21 '17 at 22:28

asked Sep 21 '17 at 22:12

ktj1989

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The output is correct. – Wiktor Stribiżew Sep 21 '17 at 22:17
I want to get the expected output so that I can then pass the output string through a string parser. – ktj1989 Sep 21 '17 at 22:25
You can do it now. Your expected string is already in `out`. – Wiktor Stribiżew Sep 21 '17 at 22:26
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That does work. Ok. Thanks. – ktj1989 Sep 21 '17 at 22:30

Replace one or more spaces in string with '\s+'

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