How to strip spaces/tabs/newlines using Python regular expression?

The following code strips the spaces/tabs/newlines from given string using Python regex

We use '\S' in regex which stands for all non-whitespace characters

Example

import re
print re.findall(r"[\S]","""I find
    Tutorialspoint useful""")

Output

This gives the output

['I', 'f', 'i', 'n', 'd', 'T', 'u', 't', 'o', 'r', 'i', 'a', 'l', 's', 'p', 'o', 'i', 'n', 't', 'u', 's', 'e', 'f', 'u', 'l']

Rajendra Dharmkar

Updated on: 19-Feb-2020

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