how to eliminate spaces after text in python code example

Example 1: remove spaces from string python

s = '  Hello   World     From  Pankaj  \t\n\r\t  Hi       There        '

>>> s.replace(" ", "")
'HelloWorldFromPankaj\t\n\r\tHiThere'

Example 2: how to remove spaces in string in python

sentence = '       hello  apple         '
sentence.strip()
>>> 'hello  apple'