Split String on the multiple spaces using python

Question

I want to split the string on multiple spaces but not on single space.

I have tried string.split() but it splits on every single space

here is my code

string='hi i am    kaveer  and i am a   student'   
string.split()

i expected the result

['hi i am','kaveer','and i am a','student']

but actual result is

['hi','i','am','kaveer','and','i','am','a','student']

Answer 1

You can make a regular expression that matches 2 or more spaces and use re.split() to split on the match:

import re

s='hi i am    kaveer'   
re.split(r'\s{2,}', s)

result

['hi i am', 'kaveer']