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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _breakRemNewlines(tag):
 	"""non-recursively break spaces and remove newlines in the tag"""

	for i,c in enumerate(tag.contents):
		if type(c) != bs4.element.NavigableString:
			continue
		c.replace_with(re.sub(r' {2,}', ' ', c).replace('\n',''))