Remove all line breaks from a long string of text

Question

Basically, I\'m asking the user to input a string of text into the console, but the string is very long and includes many line breaks. How would I take the user\'s string a

Answer 1

A method taking into consideration

• additional white characters at the beginning/end of string
• additional white characters at the beginning/end of every line
• various end-line characters

it takes such a multi-line string which may be messy e.g.

test_str = '\nhej ho \n aaa\r\n   a\n '

and produces nice one-line string

>>> ' '.join([line.strip() for line in test_str.strip().splitlines()])
'hej ho aaa a'

UPDATE: To fix multiple new-line character producing redundant spaces:

' '.join([line.strip() for line in test_str.strip().splitlines() if line.strip()])

This works for the following too test_str = '\nhej ho \n aaa\r\n\n\n\n\n a\n '

Answer 2

You can try using string replace:

string = string.replace('\r', '').replace('\n', '')