Function collapse_linebreaks

pattern/web/__init__.py:870–878

Returns a string with consecutive linebreaks collapsed to at most the given threshold. Whitespace on empty lines and at the end of each line is removed.

(string, threshold=1)

    return "\n".join(p)

def collapse_linebreaks(string, threshold=1):
    """ Returns a string with consecutive linebreaks collapsed to at most the given threshold.
        Whitespace on empty lines and at the end of each line is removed.
    """
    n = "\n" * threshold
    p = [s.rstrip() for s in string.splitlines()]
    string = "\n".join(p)
    string = re.sub(n+r"+", n, string)
    return string

def plaintext(html, keep=[], replace=blocks, linebreaks=2, indentation=False):
    """ Returns a string with all HTML tags removed.