whitespace within a string

[Erik Max Francis]

Bart Nessux wrote:

> Is there a function/module that can be used to throw out extra
> whitespace
> that appears within a string? The problem that I have is this: Before
> any
> configuration is done to my files, they have lines with tabs in
> between the
> words like this:
> 
> "disable        =       yes"

If you realy want to collapse any whitespace at all into a single space
character, how about:

	' '.join(S.split())

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