试着翻译

>>> import string
>>> print '\t\r\n  hello \r\n world \t\r\n'

  hello 
 world  
>>> tr = string.maketrans(string.whitespace, ' '*len(string.whitespace))
>>> '\t\r\n  hello \r\n world \t\r\n'.translate(tr)
'     hello    world    '
>>> '\t\r\n  hello \r\n world \t\r\n'.translate(tr).replace(' ', '')
'helloworld'

还没有人发布这些正则表达式的解决方案。

匹配:

>>> import re
>>> p=re.compile('\\s*(.*\\S)?\\s*')

>>> m=p.match('  \t blah ')
>>> m.group(1)
'blah'

>>> m=p.match('  \tbl ah  \t ')
>>> m.group(1)
'bl ah'

>>> m=p.match('  \t  ')
>>> print m.group(1)
None

搜索(你必须处理“只有空格”输入大小写不同):

>>> p1=re.compile('\\S.*\\S')

>>> m=p1.search('  \tblah  \t ')
>>> m.group()
'blah'

>>> m=p1.search('  \tbl ah  \t ')
>>> m.group()
'bl ah'

>>> m=p1.search('  \t  ')
>>> m.group()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

如果使用re.sub，可能会删除内部空白，这可能是不可取的。

如果你想去掉字符串开头和结尾的空白，你可以这样做:

some_string = "    Hello,    world!\n    "
new_string = some_string.strip()
# new_string is now "Hello,    world!"

这很像Qt的QString::()方法，因为它删除了开头和结尾的空白，而只保留内部空白。

但是，如果你想使用Qt的QString::simplified()方法，它不仅删除开头和结尾的空白，而且还将所有连续的内部空白“压缩”为一个空格字符，你可以使用.split()和" "的组合。像这样加入:

some_string = "\t    Hello,  \n\t  world!\n    "
new_string = " ".join(some_string.split())
# new_string is now "Hello, world!"

在最后一个示例中，每个内部空格序列都被替换为单个空格，同时仍然将字符串的开头和结尾的空白删除。

在Python中，trim方法被命名为strip:

str.strip()  # trim
str.lstrip()  # left trim
str.rstrip()  # right trim

#how to trim a multi line string or a file

s=""" line one
\tline two\t
line three """

#line1 starts with a space, #2 starts and ends with a tab, #3 ends with a space.

s1=s.splitlines()
print s1
[' line one', '\tline two\t', 'line three ']

print [i.strip() for i in s1]
['line one', 'line two', 'line three']




#more details:

#we could also have used a forloop from the begining:
for line in s.splitlines():
    line=line.strip()
    process(line)

#we could also be reading a file line by line.. e.g. my_file=open(filename), or with open(filename) as myfile:
for line in my_file:
    line=line.strip()
    process(line)

#moot point: note splitlines() removed the newline characters, we can keep them by passing True:
#although split() will then remove them anyway..
s2=s.splitlines(True)
print s2
[' line one\n', '\tline two\t\n', 'line three ']

你也可以使用非常简单的基本函数:str.replace()，用于空格和制表符:

>>> whitespaces = "   abcd ef gh ijkl       "
>>> tabs = "        abcde       fgh        ijkl"

>>> print whitespaces.replace(" ", "")
abcdefghijkl
>>> print tabs.replace(" ", "")
abcdefghijkl

简单易行。