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How do you collapse runs of adjacent spaces in Python? That is, shorter runs of 2+ consecutive spaces so there's only 1 space there? I can't come up with a simple/straightforward way to do it with `str.join` and I'm surprised... What am I missing?

Does “ “.join(text.split()) not do what you want?

Nope because if you have newlines, for example, those will disappear!

Aha, I see. How about this?