How to remove spaces from string and slice the string into multiple chunks of fixed length

Question

I have a string which needs to be processed:

Remove all spaces
Group the resulting string in a characters of 5

Currently I have:

new = ''
sym = " !#$%^&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}~"""
gap = []
for char in text:
    if char in sym or char in gap:
        sym += char
result = []

Anyone knows how?

Each letter or number in the string need to saved in word lengths of 5 — user5675649, Dec 13 '15 at 20:51
Give an example input and output, it's hard to guess what it's supposed to do based on non-working code. — interjay, Dec 13 '15 at 20:52
So which part are you having trouble with, removing spaces or dividing to groups of 5? And how is the code you posted at all relevant to the question, as it doesn't even attempt to perform either task? — interjay, Dec 13 '15 at 20:55

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 13 '15 at 20:56

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You worded your question really confusingly, but if you want to remove all white spaces from a string, you can use replace:

name = "Foo Bar"
name = name.replace(" ","")

print(name) 
# Output: "FooBar"

edited Dec 13 '15 at 20:56

Gurupad Hegde

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answered Dec 13 '15 at 20:51

mmghu

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but the it needs to be re arranged so the each letter from the string that has the spaces removed are saved in word lengths of 5 – user5675649 Dec 13 '15 at 20:52
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Once you have removed the spaces from the string, you can split it by lengths of 5 by using the solution posted by this user: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13673060/split-string-into-strings-by-length – mmghu Dec 13 '15 at 20:55

Gurupad Hegde · Answer 2 · 2015-12-13T21:05:12.417

I am assuming that your string is sym and

You want to remove all spaces from sym
Make a block (list) of words (strings) of length 5.

Python code in steps:

In [1]: sym = " !#$%^&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}~" #This is your input string

In [2]: sym = sym.replace(" ","") #remove all "" (spaces)

In [3]: sym #Lets check the output
Out[3]: "!#$%^&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}~"

In [4]: sym_list = [ sym[i:i+5] for i in range(0, len(sym), 5)] # use range to generate iteration with increment 5 each time

In [5]: sym_list #So, did we get blocks of 5 chars? hope so. 
Out[5]: 
['!#$%^',
 "&'()*",
 '+,-./',
 '01234',
 '56789',
 ':;<=>',
 '?@ABC',
 'DEFGH',
 'IJKLM',
 'NOPQR',
 'STUVW',
 'XYZ[\\',
 ']^_`a',
 'bcdef',
 'ghijk',
 'lmnop',
 'qrstu',
 'vwxyz',
 '{}~']

Correct me if any of my assumptions are incorrect.

How to remove spaces from string and slice the string into multiple chunks of fixed length

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