How to remove whitespace from a text string in Python

Removing whitespace characters is a useful function to have, for example when dealing with user written input. So how are we going to get this into our project without wasting a bunch of time trying to set it up from a standing start? I’ll tell you, we can use an API to do it in a fraction of the time instead.

For our API, we will need to install its client first:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Following that, instantiate the API, then use this instance to call edit_text_remove_all_whitespace:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.EditTextApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
request = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.RemoveWhitespaceFromTextRequest() # RemoveWhitespaceFromTextRequest | Input request
try:
# Remove whitespace from text string
api_response = api_instance.edit_text_remove_all_whitespace(request)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling EditTextApi->edit_text_remove_all_whitespace: %s\n" % e)

Now send the request and wait a few seconds for your de-whitespaced string. There is also a similar function that only removed leading and trailing whitespace, called edit_text_trim_whitespace.