Cleanliness is a package for doing (very) basic cleaning of text. It can be used for preprocessing input to various natural language processing tasks.
Install using from PyPI as follows:
pip install cleanlinessAlternatively, you can download the source from GitHub, then install using pip (from the repo directory):
pip install -e .from cleanliness import normalize_whitespace
clean_text = normalize_whitespace("This\ntext\t\contains odd\n\t whitespace.")