Remove extra space from text with regex - Python

Easy way to remove extra spaces from text, paragraph with regex in python

• Import regular expression packages

import re

• Remove extra spaces from text.

text = "  Hi python   is a case   sensitive language.    "
text = re.sub(' +', ' ', text)
print("text : ", text)

Explanation for above piece of code :

1. re.sub() - is a function in used to replace sub-string with another sub-string.
2. first argument in sub function is regular expression to find sub-string expression that will replace, i.e: ' +' (space with +) capture number of spaces.
3. second argument is what will replace in place of first argument, i.e: ' ' (one single space to replace with number of spaces)
4. third argument is your piece of text variable that you want to clean.