title: Ignoring or removing line breaks python
body: <p>I'm sorry for the noobish question, but none of the answers I've looked at seem to fix this. I'd like to take a multi-line string like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myString = """a
  b
  c
  d
  e"""
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And get a result that looks like or that is at least interpreted as this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myString = "abcde"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>myString.rstrip(), myString.rstrip(\n), and myString.rstrip(\r) don't seem to change anything when I print this little "abcde" test string. Some of the other solutions I've read involve entering the string like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myString = ("a"
  "b"
  "c")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this solution is impractical because I'm working with very large sets of data. I need to be able to copy a dataset and paste it into my program, and have python remove or ignore the line breaks. </p>
  
  <p>Am I entering something in wrong? Is there an elegant solution to this? Thanks in advance for your patience.</p>