How to clean a string from white spaces and a special character in python.
I am scraping some data however the text am getting is a little gibberish. I figure i could clean using join
strip
and enconding
however my output is unexpected.
#cleaner function
def string_cleaner(rouge_text):
return (" ".join(rouge_text.strip()).encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode("utf-8")).replace("\\","")
print(string_cleaner("\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Nokia 9 PureView- 5.99\ "))
print(string_cleaner("\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMi Electronic Scooter\uff08Black\uff09EU\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t "))
OUTPUT
How do i clean my string and get normal text?
I'm not sure I get what you mean by "clean my string and get normal text", but maybe try to use is this way:
def string_cleaner(rouge_text):
# "" instead of " " in .join() method
return ("".join(rouge_text.strip()).encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode("utf-8")).replace("\\","")
print(string_cleaner("\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Nokia 9 PureView- 5.99\ "))
print(string_cleaner("\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMi Electronic Scooter\uff08Black\uff09EU\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t "))
>>> print(string_cleaner("\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Nokia 9 PureView- 5.99\ "))
Nokia 9 PureView- 5.99
>>> print(string_cleaner("\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMi Electronic Scooter\uff08Black\uff09EU\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t "))
Mi Electronic ScooterBlackEU