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## What is the `cleantext` package?

[**cleantext**](https://github.com/jfilter/clean-text) is a third-party package that pre-processes text data to obtain a normalized text representation.

The package can be installed via [pip](https://www.educative.io/answers/installation-uninstallation-of-packages-in-python). Check the following command to install the `clean-text` package:

```txt
pip install clean-text
```

The **`normalize_whitespace()` method** is a built-in function that is provided by the `cleantext` library in Python. We can use it to perform the following operations:

1. Replace one or more spacings with a single space.
2. Replace one or more line breaks with a single newline.
3. Strip leading/trailing whitespaces.

#  Syntax

```python
from cleantext import clean

clean(text, normalize_whitespace=True)
```

The `cleantext` package provides us with the `clean` function.
## Parameters

- **`text`**:  This is the text data to normalize.
- **`normalize_whitespace`**: This is a Boolean value indicating whether to normalize whitespaces in the text. By default, the value is `True`.

## Return value

The method returns the normalized text.

##
## Code

import cleantext

string = """hello educative

hello edpresso    """

normalized_string = cleantext.clean(string, normalize_whitespace=True)

print("Original String - '" + string + "'")
print("\n")
print("Normalized String - '" + normalized_string + "'")

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## Code explanation

- **Line 1:** We import the `cleantext` package.
- **Lines 3-5:** This is a string with newlines, and multiple spaces are defined.
- **Line 7:** We obtain a normalized string removing multiple spaces using the `clean` method and passing `normalize_whitespace` as `True`.
- **Lines 9-11:** We print the original and the normalized string.

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How to normalize text using the cleantext package in Python

The cleantext package in Python normalizes text by condensing spaces, line breaks, and trimming whitespace.

How to normalize text using the cleantext package in Python

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What is the `cleantext` package?