>>> txt = "Hi          how are you?"
>>> " ".join(txt.strip().split())
'Hi how are you?'

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Ishan Puri <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
>     I have 2 plain text documents that have uneven spacing. I need to make
> these single spaced between lines and between words. Basically I need to get
> them to be equal character length after I abridge the uneven spacing. In
> Python there is probably one simple command for this for a text file? How do
> I do this?
> E.G.: Hi          how are you?
> Fixed: Hi how are you?
>         Thanks,
>                 Ishan
>
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