re.sub() for spaces and tabs

Question

I am trying to find 2 re.sub() lines. The first one changes any number of spaces and/or tab characters in any order into a space. (Maybe this should be 2 separate ones?) The second one changes anything that is not a letter or a space into an empty string. I included what I know so far for each one below

re.sub("?"," ",word)
re.sub("?","",word)

What should be put where the question marks are? Thanks.

The first `?` would be `\s+`. The second `?` would be `[^a-zA-Z ]`. — NetMage, Nov 20 '20 at 22:55

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '20 at 19:38

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https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html

\s+ for all whitespace, but watch out for the details
[ \t]+ if you only want tabs & spaces

answered Nov 20 '20 at 19:38

Andrew

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 20 '20 at 19:38

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import re

word = "hello    this is \ta\ttest"
result = re.sub(r'\s+', " ", word) 

print(result)  # prints: hello this is a test

answered Nov 20 '20 at 19:38

Miguel Prz

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 20 '20 at 19:39

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Code:

re.sub('\s+', ' ', word)

answered Nov 20 '20 at 19:39

Aaj Kaal

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re.sub() for spaces and tabs

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