[Python-ideas] Easily remove characters from a string.

[Chris Barker]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Michel Desmoulin <desmoulinmichel at gmail.com
> wrote:

> This actually could be implemented directly in str.replace() without
> breaking the API by accepting:
>
> "stuff".replace('a', '')
> "stuff".replace(('a', 'b', 'c'), '')
> "stuff".replace(('a', 'b', 'c'), ('?', '*', ''))
>

+1 -- I have found I Need to do this often enough that I've wondered why
it's not there.

making three calls to replace() isn't too bad, but is klunky and has
performance issues.

-CHB

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