def whitespace_tokenize(text):
    'Runs basic whitespace cleaning and splitting on a piece of text.'
    text = text.strip()
    if (not text):
        return []
    tokens = text.split()
    return tokens
Runs basic whitespace cleaning and splitting on a piece of text.
def whitespace_tokenize(text):
    
    text = text.strip()
    if (not text):
        return []
    tokens = text.split()
    return tokens