Is there a simple way to remove multiple spaces in a string?

Question

Suppose this string:

The   fox jumped   over    the log.

Turning into:

Answer 1

You can also use the string splitting technique in a Pandas DataFrame without needing to use .apply(..), which is useful if you need to perform the operation quickly on a large number of strings. Here it is on one line:

df['message'] = (df['message'].str.split()).str.join(' ')