def fix_spaces(text): """ Given a string text, replace all spaces in it with underscores, and if a string has more than 2 consecutive spaces, then replace all consecutive spaces with - fix_spaces("Example") == "Example" fix_spaces("Example 1") == "Example_1" fix_spaces(" Example 2") == "_Example_2" fix_spaces(" Example 3") == "_Example-3" """ new_text = "" i = 0 start, end = 0, 0 while i < len(text): if text[i] == " ": end += 1 else: if end - start > 2: new_text += "-"+text[i] elif end - start > 0: new_text += "_"*(end - start)+text[i] else: new_text += text[i] start, end = i+1, i+1 i+=1 if end - start > 2: new_text += "-" elif end - start > 0: new_text += "_" return new_text