[Zope] whitespace normalization (was: [Zope] way to cleanup form input text?)

Chris Beaumont writes:

... whitespace normalization ... An idiom for whitespace normalization is:

"_.string.join(_.string.split(text_to_be_normalized))" It will replace any sequences of consecutive whitespace characters by a single space. You can not use it in all cases, as sometimes newlines are semantically important. The above idiom would convert them into space. Dieter