How to remove extra spaces from the data which is being entered

Question

I am trying to remove the extra space from the data which is entered as input.

I tried using the .strip() condition but it doesn't remove the extra space of the entered data.

the code I wrote to remove extra space

Data_1 = input("Enter your name:", )
print(Data_1.strip())

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 13 '21 at 21:19

These are 3 ways of dealing with spaces you can use according to your needs:

.strip() method removes whitespaces at the beginning and end of your input string.

if your input string Data_1 is " john " or "Edward luther " or " Stephanie"

doing Data_1.strip() returns "john" or "Edward luther" or "Stephanie" with no extra spaces at the beginning and at the end

if what you want is remove all the spaces inside a string like "Edward Hamilton luther "

you can simply use Data_1.replace(" ", ""), that will remove all whitespaces and result in "EdwardHamiltonluther"

if you want to remove excessive whitespaces in a string for example " Edward Hamilton is a nice guy "

you can use " ".join(Data_1.split())

it will return "Edward Hamilton is a nice guy"

try it :

Data_1 = input("Enter your name:", )
print(" ".join(Data_1.split()))

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 13 '21 at 20:18

.strip() removes the whitespaces in the front and end of the string. To remove the extra spaces, you can try replace them.

Data_1 = input("Enter your name:", )
print(Data_1.replace("  ", "").strip())

Output -

Enter your name:  E  lon Mu  s  k 
Elon Musk

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