collapsing whitespace in a string

Question

I have a string that kind of looks like this:

\"stuff   .  // : /// more-stuff .. .. ...$%$% stuff -> DD\"

and I want to strip off all p

Answer 1

result = rex.sub(' ', string) # this produces a string with tons of whitespace padding
result = rex.sub('', result) # this reduces all those spaces

Because you typo'd and forgot to use rex_s for the second call instead. Also, you need to substitute at least one space back in or you'll end up with any multiple-space gap becoming no gap at all, instead of a single-space gap.

result = rex.sub(' ', string) # this produces a string with tons of whitespace padding
result = rex_s.sub(' ', result) # this reduces all those spaces