I want to eliminate all the whitespace from a string, on both ends, and in between words.
I have this Python code:
def my_handle(self): sentence = ' hello apple ' sentence.strip()
But that only eliminates the whitespace on both sides of the string. How do I remove all whitespace?
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Answer
If you want to remove leading and ending spaces, use str.strip()
:
>>> " hello apple ".strip() 'hello apple'
If you want to remove all space characters, use str.replace()
(NB this only removes the “normal” ASCII space character ' ' U+0020
but not any other whitespace):
>>> " hello apple ".replace(" ", "") 'helloapple'
If you want to remove duplicated spaces, use str.split()
followed by str.join()
:
>>> " ".join(" hello apple ".split()) 'hello apple'