How to remove extra spaces from the data which is being entered

Question

I am trying to remove the extra space from the data which is entered as input.

I tried using the .strip() condition but it doesn't remove the extra space of the entered data.

the code I wrote to remove extra space

Data_1 = input("Enter your name:", )
print(Data_1.strip())

Answer 1

These are 3 ways of dealing with spaces you can use according to your needs:

1- the method you are using

.strip() method removes whitespaces at the beginning and end of your input string.

if your input string Data_1 is " john " or "Edward luther " or " Stephanie"

doing Data_1.strip() returns "john" or "Edward luther" or "Stephanie" with no extra spaces at the beginning and at the end

2- removing all spaces

if what you want is remove all the spaces inside a string like "Edward Hamilton luther "

you can simply use Data_1.replace(" ", ""), that will remove all whitespaces and result in "EdwardHamiltonluther"

3- removing excessive whitespaces

if you want to remove excessive whitespaces in a string for example " Edward Hamilton is a nice guy "

you can use " ".join(Data_1.split())

it will return "Edward Hamilton is a nice guy"

try it :

Data_1 = input("Enter your name:", )
print(" ".join(Data_1.split()))