title: Python/Django: How to remove extra white spaces & tabs from a string?
body: <p>I'm building a website with Python/Django. Users submit tags. Each tag can contain multiple words. Each tag has an ID number. I want to make sure tags that are formatted slightly differently are still being recognized as the same tag.</p>
  
  <p>For example, if one user submitted the tag "electric guitar" and the other submitted "electric &nbsp; guitar" (2 white spaces between the 2 words) I want to be able to recognize they are the same tag.</p>
  
  <p>How to I remove all the extra white spaces and tabs in this case? Thanks.</p>