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doniyor
doniyor

Reputation: 37846

how to check multiple strings for emptyness in python

I have inputs s1, s2, s3. I need to concatenate them only if they really exist.

I did: 

s1 = s1.strip()
s2 = s2.strip()
s3 = s3.strip()
if s1 and s2 and s3: 
   input = s1 + ' ' + s2 + ' ' + s3
if s1 and s2:
   input = s1 + ' ' + s2
if s1 and s3: 
   input = s1 + ' ' + s3
if s2 and s3: 
   input = s2 + ' ' + s3
....
...

e.g. I dont want test ( white space ). I want test if the rest 2 inputs are empty.

how can I do this in more efficient and elegant way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 173

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 473753

You can use join() to join non-empty strings (one line):

>>> s1 = 'test'
>>> s2 = ''
>>> s3 = ''
>>> ' '.join(s for s in (s1,s2,s3) if s)
'test'

Upvotes: 5

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