["python","string","trim","removing-whitespace"]
Remove all whitespace in a string

I want to eliminate all the whitespace from a string, on both ends, and in between words. I have this Python code: def my_handle(self): sentence = ' hello apple ' sentence.strip() But that only eliminates the whitespace on both sides of the string. How do I remove all whitespace?
If you want to remove leading and ending whitespace, use str.strip(): >>> " hello apple ".strip() 'hello apple' If you want to remove all space characters, use str.replace() (NB this only removes the “normal” ASCII space character ' ' U+0020 but not any other whitespace): >>> " hello apple ".replace(" ", "") 'helloapple' If you want to remove all whitespace and then leave a single space character between words, use str.split() followed by str.join(): >>> " ".join(" hello apple ".split()) 'hello apple' If you want to remove all whitespace then change the above leading " " to "": >>> "".join(" hello apple ".split()) 'helloapple'