there is a line:

1111; CD_COUNTRY_2; DE; DE; Германия; ГЕРМАНИЯ; 523; ; ГЕРМАНИЯ ; ; ;

How to remove a space after a character ;

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    Have you tried to do something yourself? And if so, what did not work out? - Avernial
  • I think the answer to this question will help you.stackoverflow.com/questions/502573/… - Alex.B
  • I already looked, there it is a question of removal of all characters, after a comma. - Dmitry Smirnov
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    re.sub('\;\s+',';', my_string) - remove any number of spaces after ; - MaxU
  • Exactly what is needed! Thanks - Dmitry Smirnov

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Try this:

 import re In [32]: s Out[32]: '1111; CD_COUNTRY_2; DE; DE; Германия; ГЕРМАНИЯ; 523; ; ГЕРМАНИЯ ; ; ; ' In [33]: re.sub('\;\s+',';', s) Out[33]: '1111;CD_COUNTRY_2;DE;DE;Германия;ГЕРМАНИЯ;523;;ГЕРМАНИЯ ;;;'

if you also need to get rid of the spaces before ; :

 In [37]: re.sub('\s*\;\s*',';', s) Out[37]: '1111;CD_COUNTRY_2;DE;DE;Германия;ГЕРМАНИЯ;523;;ГЕРМАНИЯ;;;'