def cleanBlockQuotedText(text, joiner=' '):
 L = filter(truth, map(_lineClean, split(text, '\n')))
 return joiner.join(L)

def cleanBlockQuotedText ( text , joiner = ' ' ) : L = filter ( truth , map ( _lineClean , split ( text , '\n' ) ) ) return joiner . join ( L )
this is an internal utility which takes triple- quoted text form within the document and returns the paragraph the user intended originally .