I have a massive list that looks similar to this:
['red.color\xa0', '2020-11-27\xa0', 'green.color\xa0', '2020-11-27\xa0', 'blue.color\xa0', '2020-11-27\xa0']
I'm trying to figure out how to strip the \xa0 characters out as well as combine every two list items, so it would end up like:
[['red.color', '2020-11-27'], ['green.color', '2020-11-27'], ['blue.color', '2020-11-27']]
I tried this, but failed miserably:
for data in ugly:
data = data.strip("\xa0")
As for combining every other list item into a new list, well, if I fail at the above you can probably guess I implode at this.
\xa0 is actually non-breaking space. Replace it like below using List Comprehension:
In [3731]: ugly = ['red.color\xa0', '2020-11-27\xa0', 'green.color\xa0', '2020-11-27\xa0', 'blue.color\xa0', '2020-11-27\xa0']
In [3736]: x = [i.replace(u'\xa0', u'') for i in ugly]
Now, combine every 2 elements of list using zip:
In [3741]: y = [list(i) for i in zip(x[0::2], x[1::2])]
In [3742]: y
Out[3742]:
[['red.color', '2020-11-27'],
['green.color', '2020-11-27'],
['blue.color', '2020-11-27']]