Deleting specific control characters(\n \r \t) from a string

Question

I have quite large amount of text which include control charachters like \\n \\t and \\r. I need to replace them with a simple space--> \" \". What is the fastest way to do this

Answer 1

using regex

re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', '1\n2\r3\t4')

without regex

>>> ' '.join('1\n\n2\r3\t4'.split())
'1 2 3 4'
>>>