Deleting specific control characters(\n \r \t) from a string

Question

I have quite large amount of text which include control charachters like \\n \\t and \\r. I need to replace them with a simple space--> \" \". What is the fastest way to do this

Answer 1

You may also try regular expressions:

import re
regex = re.compile(r'[\n\r\t]')
regex.sub(' ', my_str)