question about the textwrap module

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>py> text = 'This          is some \t   text with  multiple\n\n  spaces.'
>py> import re
>py> re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', text)
>'This is some text with multiple spaces.'

py> ' '.join(text.split())
'This is some text with multiple spaces.'

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