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())

在某些情况下，需要将每个空格字符的连续出现替换为该字符的单个实例。你可以使用带有反向引用的正则表达式来实现这一点。

(\s)\1{1，}匹配任何空格字符，后面跟着一个或多个该字符。现在，您所需要做的就是指定第一个组(\1)作为匹配的替换。

将其包装在函数中:

import re

def normalize_whitespace(string):
    return re.sub(r'(\s)\1{1,}', r'\1', string)

>>> normalize_whitespace('The   fox jumped   over    the log.')
'The fox jumped over the log.'
>>> normalize_whitespace('First    line\t\t\t \n\n\nSecond    line')
'First line\t \nSecond line'

类似于前面的解决方案，但更具体:用一个空格替换两个或多个空格:

>>> import re
>>> s = "The   fox jumped   over    the log."
>>> re.sub('\s{2,}', ' ', s)
'The fox jumped over the log.'

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

我没有深入研究其他示例，但是我刚刚创建了这个方法来合并多个连续的空格字符。

它不使用任何库，虽然它的脚本长度相对较长，但它不是一个复杂的实现:

def spaceMatcher(command):
    """
    Function defined to consolidate multiple whitespace characters in
    strings to a single space
    """
    # Initiate index to flag if more than one consecutive character
    iteration
    space_match = 0
    space_char = ""
    for char in command:
      if char == " ":
          space_match += 1
          space_char += " "
      elif (char != " ") & (space_match > 1):
          new_command = command.replace(space_char, " ")
          space_match = 0
          space_char = ""
      elif char != " ":
          space_match = 0
          space_char = ""
   return new_command

command = None
command = str(input("Please enter a command ->"))
print(spaceMatcher(command))
print(list(spaceMatcher(command)))