Four different approaches to removing extra spaces from a Python string are compared: using `re.sub` with a pattern matching 2+ consecutive spaces (recommended), string splitting with `filter(None, ...)`, a fixed-point iteration using `str.replace`, and `itertools.groupby` to group space vs non-space characters. Each method's
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