nospaces.py

import sys

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
	print "Usage: python nospaces.py <inputfile>"
	exit()

infile = sys.argv[1]

print "Removing the spaces from " + infile + "..."

outfile = "nospaces.txt"
out = open(outfile, "w")

with open(infile) as f:
	for line in f:
		out.write("\t".join(map(lambda s: s.strip(), line.split("\t"))) + "\n")
	
out.close()

print "Resulting file is called " + outfile