>>> s="abc \n \t \t\t \t \nefg" >>> ''.join(s.split()) 'abcefg' >>> ''.join(c for c in s if not c.isspace()) 'abcefg' import re s = 'abc \n \t \t\t \t \nefg' re.sub(r'\s', '', s) => 'abcefg'