title: python regex to replace all single word characters in string
body: <p>I am trying to remove all the single characters in a string </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>input: "This is a big car and it has a spacious seats"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>my output should be:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>output: "This is  big car and it has  spacious seats"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Here I am using the expression</p>
  
  <pre><code>import re
  re.compile('\b(?&lt;=)[a-z](?=)\b')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This matches with first single character in the string ...</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated ...thanks in Advance</p>