Remove multiple spaces from a string in Python
By Nitesh JhawarIn this tutorial, we will learn how to remove multiple spaces from a string and replace them with a single space.
Replace multiple spaces with a single space in Python
First of all, we need to declare a string variable that has a string that contains multiple spaces.
my_string="My name is Nitesh Jhawar"
Here, you can see that multiple spaces between the words but only a single space are required.
So, first of all, we need to separate each word of the string. Here we use a function split().
This function breaks or splits a string into its words and returns a list with the words separated with a comma. It is stored in variable str.
Let’s print str to see the result.
str=my_string.split() print(str)
Output:
['My', 'name', 'is', 'Nitesh', 'Jhawar']
Now we got a list with comma separated words of my_string.
Next, We want to concatenate the items in list str to convert it into a string. But how do we do that?
In order to do that, we use a function join().
This function joins or concatenates the items in a list or tuple. To separate the items, we need to provide a separator.
Syntax:
separator.join(list_name)
new_string=" ".join(str)
Here separator is whitespace and new_string holds our result.
Let’s see the value of new_string.
My name is Nitesh Jhawar
Finally, Our code looks like this.
my_string="My name is Nitesh Jhawar" str=my_string.split() print(str) new_string=" ".join(str) print(new_string)
Output:
['My', 'name', 'is', 'Nitesh', 'Jhawar'] My name is Nitesh Jhawar
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Can you expand on this so that if there is a period at the end of the sentence, it doesn’t put a space between the last word and the period?