Removing all spaces in text file with Python 3.x

Question

So I have this crazy long text file made by my crawler and it for some reason added some spaces inbetween the links, like this:

https://example.com/asdf.html         


        

Answer 1

Seems like you can't directly edit a python file, so here is my suggestion:

# first get all lines from file
with open('file.txt', 'r') as f:
    lines = f.readlines()

# remove spaces
lines = [line.replace(' ', '') for line in lines]

# finally, write lines in the file
with open('file.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.writelines(lines)