另一个选择:

>>> import re
>>> str = 'this is a            string with    multiple spaces and    tabs'
>>> str = re.sub('[ \t]+' , ' ', str)
>>> print str
this is a string with multiple spaces and tabs

>>> import re
>>> re.sub(' +', ' ', 'The     quick brown    fox')
'The quick brown fox'

import re

Text = " You can select below trims for removing white space!!   BR Aliakbar     "
  # trims all white spaces
print('Remove all space:',re.sub(r"\s+", "", Text), sep='') 
# trims left space
print('Remove leading space:', re.sub(r"^\s+", "", Text), sep='') 
# trims right space
print('Remove trailing spaces:', re.sub(r"\s+$", "", Text), sep='')  
# trims both
print('Remove leading and trailing spaces:', re.sub(r"^\s+|\s+$", "", Text), sep='')
# replace more than one white space in the string with one white space
print('Remove more than one space:',re.sub(' +', ' ',Text), sep='') 

结果:作为代码

"Remove all space:Youcanselectbelowtrimsforremovingwhitespace!!BRAliakbar"
"Remove leading space:You can select below trims for removing white space!!   BR Aliakbar"     
"Remove trailing spaces: You can select below trims for removing white space!!   BR Aliakbar"
"Remove leading and trailing spaces:You can select below trims for removing white space!!   BR Aliakbar"
"Remove more than one space: You can select below trims for removing white space!! BR Aliakbar" 

import re
string = re.sub('[ \t\n]+', ' ', 'The     quick brown                \n\n             \t        fox')

这将删除所有的制表符，新行和多个空白与单一空白。

我尝试过下面的方法，它甚至适用于极端的情况，比如:

str1='          I   live    on    earth           '

' '.join(str1.split())

但如果你更喜欢正则表达式，它可以这样做:

re.sub('\s+', ' ', str1)

尽管必须进行一些预处理以删除尾随和结束空格。

def unPretty(S):
   # Given a dictionary, JSON, list, float, int, or even a string...
   # return a string stripped of CR, LF replaced by space, with multiple spaces reduced to one.
   return ' '.join(str(S).replace('\n', ' ').replace('\r', '').split())