
    Create a function that standardizes student responses by removing all spaces from their submitted answers, enabling accurate comparison with the system's answer key in the adaptive learning platform. The function should process raw text input from students and return a cleaned version without any whitespace characters, maintaining the original sequence of characters.
    

    
import re

def remove_whitespaces(text1):
    """
    Create a function that standardizes student responses by removing all spaces from their submitted answers, enabling accurate comparison with the system's answer key in the adaptive learning platform. The function should process raw text input from students and return a cleaned version without any whitespace characters, maintaining the original sequence of characters.
    

    """
import re

def remove_whitespaces(text1):
    """
    Create a function that standardizes student responses by removing all spaces from their submitted answers, enabling accurate comparison with the system's answer key in the adaptive learning platform. The function should process raw text input from students and return a cleaned version without any whitespace characters, maintaining the original sequence of characters.
    

    """
    return re.sub('\\s+', '', text1)