Update: @Kevin Lively provides a better answer.
Here is a function to remove the idle wires. However, it has the drawback that you will lose the registers info:
from qiskit.converters import circuit_to_dag, dag_to_circuit
from collections import OrderedDict
def remove_idle_qwires(circ):
dag = circuit_to_dag(circ)
idle_wires = list(dag.idle_wires())
for w in idle_wires:
dag._remove_idle_wire(w)
dag.qubits.remove(w)
dag.qregs = OrderedDict()
return dag_to_circuit(dag)
Now, let's create a multi-register circuit with some idle wires and use it to check the solution:
q = QuantumRegister(2, 'q')
a = QuantumRegister(2, 'a')
circ = QuantumCircuit(q, a)
circ.h(q[0])
circ.cx(q[0], a[0])
circ.draw('mpl')
circ2 = remove_idle_qwires(circ)
circ2.draw('mpl')