# Remove whitespace from a string in Python

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## The Problem

How can I remove all whitespace from a string in Python, on both ends and between words? `str.strip()` only removes whitespace from the ends of the string.

## The Solution

We can remove all space characters from a string using [`str.replace()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.replace) to replace them with empty strings:

```python
my_string = "    Hello     World    !"
my_string_no_spaces = my_string.replace(" ", "")

print(my_string_no_spaces)  # will print "HelloWorld!"
```

To remove all whitespace characters – not just regular spaces but also tabs, non-breaking spaces, hair-width spaces, etc. – we can import Python's [Regular Expressions module](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html) and use [`re.sub`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.sub) with [`r"\s"`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax), a regular expression that will match any whitespace character. For example:

```python
import re

my_string = "    Hello     World    !"
my_string_no_spaces = re.sub(r"\s", "", my_string)

print(my_string_no_spaces)  # will print "HelloWorld!"
```

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