Write a program that requests the user to enter a sentence and checks whether the sen- tence contains extra (i.e., double) spaces between words. If so, the program should remove the extra space. For example, "Hello World" should be "Hello World". (Hint: Use split and join.)

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

```
# Check double spacing in a sentence.

import string

print "This program checks for double spacing in a sentence"
sentence = raw_input( "Enter a sentence: " )
newsentence = []
extraSpace = 0

# split sentence into words
sentence = string.split( sentence, " " )

# check double spacing
for word in sentence:

# non-space word
if word != "":
newsentence.append( word )
else:
print "removing extra space ..."
extraSpace += 1

# output the result
if extraSpace == 0:
print "The input sentence does not contain double spacing"
else:
correctSentence = " ".join( newsentence )
print "New sentence: %s" % correctSentence
```
This program checks for double spacing in a sentence
Enter a sentence: I am a student.
removing extra space ...
removing extra space ...
New sentence: I am a student.