Normalize whitespace with Python

Question

I\'m building a data extract using scrapy and want to normalize a raw string pulled out of an HTML document. Here\'s an example string:

  Sapphire RX460 OC           


        

Answer 1

You can use a function like below with regular expression to scan for continuous spaces and replace them by 1 space

import re

def clean_data(data):
    return re.sub(" {2,}", " ", data.strip())

product_title = clean(product.css('h3::text').extract_first())

And then improve clean function anyway you like it