How to remove whitespace from a string in Python

• Remove whitespace from a string in Python using strip() method

  x = '  Hello python  '.strip()
  print(x)
  

  Output:

  Hello python

  strip() will help you to remove the whitespace from both beginning and end of a string.

• Remove whitespace from string using replace() method in Python

  x = '  Hello python  '
  print(x.replace(" ", ""))
  

  Output:

  Hellopython

  You can use replace method to replace all the whitespaces with a specific character just by passing the value to second argument or just remove all the spaces by passing value to second argument as the code snippet.

• Remove whitespace using split and join method in Python

  x = ' Hello python'
  print("".join(x.split()))
  

  Output:

  Hellopython

  You can use split method with the join method to remove all the whitespaces present in a string.

• Remove whitespace from string using regular expressions in Python

  import re 
  
  x = ' Hello python'
  my_pattern = re.compile(r'\s+')
  print(re.sub(my_pattern, '', x)) 
  

  Output:

  Hellopython

  Regular expressions are used to define a pattern that can be applied to a string. Here we have define the pattern to remove the extra whitespace from the string.

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