How to strip all whitespace from string

Question

How do I strip all the spaces in a python string? For example, I want a string like strip my spaces to be turned into stripmyspaces, but I cannot s

Answer 1

The simplest is to use replace:

"foo bar\t".replace(" ", "").replace("\t", "")

Alternatively, use a regular expression:

import re
re.sub(r"\s", "", "foo bar\t")