Adding a new string method in Python

Question

I am parsing a bunch of HTML and am encountering a lot of "\n" and "\t" inside the code. So I am using

"something\t\n here".replace("\t","").replace("\n","")

This works, but I'm using it often. Is there a way to define a string function, along the lines of replace itself (or find, index, format, etc.) that will pretty my code a little, something like

"something\t\n here".noTabsOrNewlines()

I tried

class str:
    def noTabNewline(self):
        self.replace("\t","").replace("\n","")

but that was no good. Thanks for any help.

you are on track with creating a class and using a method to perform your funciton.. make sure you read up on classes and objects — WildCard
– WildCard, Commented May 26, 2016 at 3:34
What about using noTabsOrNewlines("something\t\n here") instead? — Ryan Amos
– Ryan Amos, Commented May 26, 2016 at 3:43
@RyanAmos Thanks. That'll do perfectly. Of course now I'm still curious about how to define a method that will appear after "something".<<here>> — Brandon Macer
– Brandon Macer, Commented May 26, 2016 at 3:47

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:25:27Z

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While you could do something along these lines (https://stackoverflow.com/a/4698550/1867876), the more Pythonic thing to do would be:

myString = "something\t\n here" ' '.join(myString.split())

You can see this thread for more information: Strip spaces/tabs/newlines - python

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:25

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answered May 26, 2016 at 3:38

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Brandon Macer Over a year ago

I'll take this because it's pretty and that's what I wanted, though my curiosity remains for adding methods to "something" (or [somethings] or (somethings), for that matter)

John Karasinski Over a year ago

You can see this previous post at stackoverflow.com/a/4698550/1867876. I updated my answer to include this above.

Nidhi Rai · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-26 03:43:19Z

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you can try encoding='utf-8'. otherwise in my opinion there is no other way otherthan replacing it . python also replaces it spaces with '/xa0' so in anyway you have to replace it. our you can read it line by line via (readline()) instead of just read() it .

answered May 26, 2016 at 3:43

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