
    Create a function that processes student responses by removing all spaces (including accidental double spaces and copy-paste artifacts) to ensure accurate answer validation in the adaptive learning platform's assessment system. The function should handle any type of whitespace character that might appear in student submissions while preserving all other characters in their original order.
    

    
import re

def remove_whitespaces(text1):
    """
    Create a function that processes student responses by removing all spaces (including accidental double spaces and copy-paste artifacts) to ensure accurate answer validation in the adaptive learning platform's assessment system. The function should handle any type of whitespace character that might appear in student submissions while preserving all other characters in their original order.
    

    """
import re

def remove_whitespaces(text1):
    """
    Create a function that processes student responses by removing all spaces (including accidental double spaces and copy-paste artifacts) to ensure accurate answer validation in the adaptive learning platform's assessment system. The function should handle any type of whitespace character that might appear in student submissions while preserving all other characters in their original order.
    

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