def clean()

in readability/readability.py [0:0]

• 5 lines of code
• 1 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def clean(text):
    # Many spaces make the following regexes run forever
    text = re.sub(r"\s{255,}", " " * 255, text)
    text = re.sub(r"\s*\n\s*", "\n", text)
    text = re.sub(r"\t|[ \t]{2,}", " ", text)
    return text.strip()