Strip spaces/tabs/newlines - python

I am trying to remove all spaces/tabs/newlines in python 2.7 on Linux.

I wrote this, that should do the job:

myString="I want to Remove all white \t spaces, new lines \n and tabs \t"
myString = myString.strip(' \n\t')
print myString

output:

I want to Remove all white   spaces, new lines 
 and tabs

It seems like a simple thing to do, yet I am missing here something. Should I be importing something?