import re

Text = " You can select below trims for removing white space!!   BR Aliakbar     "
  # trims all white spaces
print('Remove all space:',re.sub(r"\s+", "", Text), sep='') 
# trims left space
print('Remove leading space:', re.sub(r"^\s+", "", Text), sep='') 
# trims right space
print('Remove trailing spaces:', re.sub(r"\s+$", "", Text), sep='')  
# trims both
print('Remove leading and trailing spaces:', re.sub(r"^\s+|\s+$", "", Text), sep='')
# replace more than one white space in the string with one white space
print('Remove more than one space:',re.sub(' +', ' ',Text), sep='') 

结果:作为代码

"Remove all space:Youcanselectbelowtrimsforremovingwhitespace!!BRAliakbar"
"Remove leading space:You can select below trims for removing white space!!   BR Aliakbar"     
"Remove trailing spaces: You can select below trims for removing white space!!   BR Aliakbar"
"Remove leading and trailing spaces:You can select below trims for removing white space!!   BR Aliakbar"
"Remove more than one space: You can select below trims for removing white space!! BR Aliakbar" 

>>> import re
>>> re.sub(' +', ' ', 'The     quick brown    fox')
'The quick brown fox'

令人惊讶的是，没有人发布一个简单的函数，它会比所有其他发布的解决方案快得多。是这样的:

def compactSpaces(s):
    os = ""
    for c in s:
        if c != " " or (os and os[-1] != " "):
            os += c 
    return os

这样做，并将这样做::)

# python... 3.x
import operator
...
# line: line of text
return " ".join(filter(lambda a: operator.is_not(a, ""), line.strip().split(" ")))

import re
s = "The   fox jumped   over    the log."
re.sub("\s\s+" , " ", s)

or

re.sub("\s\s+", " ", s)

正如用户Martin Thoma在评论中提到的，在PEP 8中，逗号前的空格被列为令人讨厌的地方。

" ".join(foo.split())对于所问的问题不太正确，因为它也完全删除了单个前导和/或尾随空格。所以，如果它们也将被1个空白替换，你应该像下面这样做:

" ".join(('*' + foo + '*').split()) [1:-1]

当然，它没有那么优雅。