eliminating multiple occurrences of whitespace in a string in python

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Published on 2010-06-01T15:29:32Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 21:13 UTC
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If I have a string

"this is   a    string"

How can I shorten it so that I only have one space between the words rather than multiple? (The number of white spaces is random)

"this is a string"

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