Write some regex to clean list of strings

Question

I have a list containing text data from a docx file. How can I apply some regex or some lambda function to go through this whole list and 'clean it'; meaning, I'd like to take out \t and \n

['\tSA   [WP5]\t\t\n', "<class 'docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph'>\n", '\t\tCOUNTRY:\n', "<class 'docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph'>\n", '\n']

so that my output looks like:

['SA   [WP5]', "<class 'docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph'>", 'COUNTRY:', "<class 'docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph'>", '']

Also possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185524/how-do-i-trim-whitespace. — TrebledJ, Feb 20 '19 at 17:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '19 at 16:59

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[x.replace('\t', '').replace('\n', '') for  x in lst]

would do it, without the need for regex.

answered Feb 20 '19 at 16:59

jez

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