replace white space with a string, is this pythonic?

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replace white space with a string, is this pythonic? - Skaperen - Jun-18-2019

i need to replace a run of white space characters by a string, which is usually a single character (but not always). for example: "foo \t bar" -> "foo_bar". is this a pythonic way to do that?

    replace_with = "_" # or this gets set some other way
    convert_this = "foo \t bar" # or this gets set some other way
    result = replace_with.join(convert_this.split())

or is there a better one like a not-known-to-me way to specify a run of white space in str.replace()?

RE: replace white space with a string, is this pythonic? - metulburr - Jun-18-2019

basically yes

>>> s = 'foo \t bar'.split()
>>> s
['foo', 'bar']
>>> '_'.join(s)
'foo_bar'