remove spaces with exceptions

[catosp]

Ok, managed to write some piece of code to do the job:

word = "asdas asdd sd a2123 3234 \"test asd sdd 12 3231  123\" asda"

quo = False
wordT = ""

for letter in word:
        
    if letter == "\"" and quo == False:
        quo = True
        wordT += letter
        continue
        
    if quo == False:
        wordT += letter
    
    if quo == True:
        if letter == " ":
            wordT += "_"
        else:
            wordT += letter
    
    if letter == "\"" and quo == True:
        quo = False

print(wordT.replace(" ","").replace("_"," "))

Output:
asdasasddsda21233234"test asd sdd 12 3231  123"asda

But the solution is not very elegant.