str.split() question

[cwoozy]

I'm writing a program that has the user input their name, then converts their name to a "numeric value" (basically, take the ASCII value of all of the characters and add them together).

I think I know just about everything I need to write my program, except for one thing:
Since spaces count as 32, I would like to eliminate them from the inputted string. My first guess was to just string.split and then concatenate the two split strings, but I don't know what the two split strings would be called.
Any tips?

[bvdet]

I'm writing a program that has the user input their name, then converts their name to a "numeric value" (basically, take the ASCII value of all of the characters and add them together).

I think I know just about everything I need to write my program, except for one thing:
Since spaces count as 32, I would like to eliminate them from the inputted string. My first guess was to just string.split and then concatenate the two split strings, but I don't know what the two split strings would be called.
Any tips?

Maybe this will help:

>>> name = 'Donald Smith'
>>> name.replace(" ", "")
'DonaldSmith'
>>> 

[ilikepython]

I'm writing a program that has the user input their name, then converts their name to a "numeric value" (basically, take the ASCII value of all of the characters and add them together).

I think I know just about everything I need to write my program, except for one thing:
Since spaces count as 32, I would like to eliminate them from the inputted string. My first guess was to just string.split and then concatenate the two split strings, but I don't know what the two split strings would be called.
Any tips?

To use the str.split() function:

name = "Donald Smith"
name = "".join(name.split())
print name
 

[cwoozy]

Thank you both for the quick reply and informative answers!