How do I replace whitespaces with underscore?

Question

I want to replace whitespace with underscore in a string to create nice URLs. So that for example:

\"This should be connected\" becomes \"This_should_be_conn         


        

Answer 1

Using the re module:

import re
re.sub('\s+', '_', "This should be connected") # This_should_be_connected
re.sub('\s+', '_', 'And     so\tshould this')  # And_so_should_this

Unless you have multiple spaces or other whitespace possibilities as above, you may just wish to use string.replace as others have suggested.