def _normalize_answer()

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def _normalize_answer(text: str) -> str:
    """Lower text and remove punctuation, articles and extra whitespace."""

    parts = [
        _white_space_fix(_remove_articles(_normalize_number(_remove_punc(_lower(token)))))
        for token in _tokenize(text)
    ]
    parts = [part for part in parts if part.strip()]
    normalized = " ".join(parts).strip()
    return normalized