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I am trying to split a string into a list of int for further processing. But somehow I can't seem to remove certain spaces between list items. String x should be 1000 long instead of 1019. I tried to read the python documentation and saw the strip () function to strip whitespace from strings. However, it only works for trailing and leading spaces. How should I remove those whitespace, and also how should I convert the list str to a list of int? My code looks like this:

import array

x = """73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934
96983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843
85861560789112949495459501737958331952853208805511
12540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557
66896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113
62229893423380308135336276614282806444486645238749
30358907296290491560440772390713810515859307960866
70172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776
65727333001053367881220235421809751254540594752243
52584907711670556013604839586446706324415722155397
53697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482
83972241375657056057490261407972968652414535100474
82166370484403199890008895243450658541227588666881
16427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586
17866458359124566529476545682848912883142607690042
24219022671055626321111109370544217506941658960408
07198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188
84580156166097919133875499200524063689912560717606
05886116467109405077541002256983155200055935729725
71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450"""

y=[]  

for i in range(0,len(x)): #String is now in a string list
    if x[i]!='':
        y.append(x[i])
        print(y[i])

print(len(x))
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See this SO question . Not an exact duplicate, but you need an answer :)



''.join(x.split())
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>>> x = """73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934
... 96983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843
... 85861560789112949495459501737958331952853208805511
... 12540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557
... 66896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113
... 62229893423380308135336276614282806444486645238749
... 30358907296290491560440772390713810515859307960866
... 70172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776
... 65727333001053367881220235421809751254540594752243
... 52584907711670556013604839586446706324415722155397
... 53697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482
... 83972241375657056057490261407972968652414535100474
... 82166370484403199890008895243450658541227588666881
... 16427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586
... 17866458359124566529476545682848912883142607690042
... 24219022671055626321111109370544217506941658960408
... 07198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188
... 84580156166097919133875499200524063689912560717606
... 05886116467109405077541002256983155200055935729725
... 71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450"""
>>> len(x)
1019
>>> x = x.replace("\n", "")
>>> len(x)
1000

At this point, you can handle x however you like, for example to convert it to int:

>>> x = int(x)

Or convert it to a list of int, one per character:



>>> x = [int(c) for c in x]

You can also do this in your source, which may be more convenient:

>>> x = """731...
... ...450""".strip().replace("\n", "")
# strip used if you want to include extra leading or trailing whitespace
# for formatting
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The easiest of all is this: you can remove lines from a string string by ripping them out with gaps:

x = """73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934\
96983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843\
85861560789112949495459501737958331952853208805511\
12540698747158523863050715693290963295227443043557\
66896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113\
62229893423380308135336276614282806444486645238749\
30358907296290491560440772390713810515859307960866\
70172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776\
65727333001053367881220235421809751254540594752243\
52584907711670556013604839586446706324415722155397\
53697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482\
83972241375657056057490261407972968652414535100474\
82166370484403199890008895243450658541227588666881\
16427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586\
17866458359124566529476545682848912883142607690042\
24219022671055626321111109370544217506941658960408\
07198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188\
84580156166097919133875499200524063689912560717606\
05886116467109405077541002256983155200055935729725\
71636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450"""

print len(x)

-> 1000

~ rays

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Try the following:

import string

y = [int(elt) for elt in x if elt not in string.whitespace]

(thanks tgray )

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There are many ways to remove spaces from strings in python. Here are two ways that I know:

import string
string.join(str.split(), "")

Or,

import re
re.sub("\s+", "", str)
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Perhaps you can rewrite the line like this:

x = ("1234" +
     "5678"
    )

This will avoid the newlines you use with multi-line strings.

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For all spaces (\ n and ''):

y = [int(i) for i in re.sub(r'\s', '', x)]

For your particular line, which actually contains newlines instead of '::

y = [int(i) for i in x if i != '\n']
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This should create a list of int:

x = [int(i) for i in x if i.isdigit()]
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Use re.sub ("\ s", ", current_string) to remove the spaces.

As for converting a list of str to a list of int , just convert str to int by splitting the values ​​in the list. I'm not sure how you plan on doing the splitting; so I cannot write the actual code for the exact conversion.

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