Normalize whitespace in string
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def normalize_whitespace(str): | |
import re | |
str = str.strip() | |
str = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', str) | |
return str |
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Trims whitespace from both sides and replaces all whitespace characters with a single space.
Example: " this is spacious ! " => "this is spacious !"