Remove all line breaks from a long string of text

Question

Basically, I\'m asking the user to input a string of text into the console, but the string is very long and includes many line breaks. How would I take the user\'s string a

Answer 1

You can split the string with no separator arg, which will treat consecutive whitespace as a single separator (including newlines and tabs). Then join using a space:

In : " ".join("\n\nsome    text \r\n with multiple whitespace".split())
Out: 'some text with multiple whitespace'

https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.split