At first I totally misread this....<br><br>To get the set of letters, use<br><br>import string<br>string.ascii_letters<br><br>Then do what you said in your algorithm.<br><br>A shorthand way to do that is<br><br>filteredString = ''.join([c for c in foo if c in
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Nelsen</b> <<a href="mailto:sxkorean@gmail.com">sxkorean@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was wondering, recently, the most expedient way to take a string with [@#$%^&*] and alpha-numeric characters [ie. "^@%#*$@*$g@)$&^@&^$F"] and place all of the letters in a string or list. I thought there could be obvious ways:
<br><br>A) Find all the letters, put them in a list, one by one. Something like (I'm not sure yet how I'd do it...):<br><br>import string<br>list = {}<br>string = "@*&^$&*^@$g*(&@$*(&$@c(*&*(&c^&%&^%"
<br>for x in string:<br> if x <is in string.letters?><br> list = list + [x]<br><br>B) Delete all the characters in the string that don't match string.letters:<br><br>No idea...strip()?<br><br>Thanks,<br>
<br>Drew<br>
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