Deleting characters from a string
Hrvoje Niksic
hniksic at srce.hr
Sat Jun 5 12:43:27 EDT 1999
aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
> In article <87n1ye3g4v.fsf at pc-hrvoje.srce.hr>,
> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at srce.hr> wrote:
> >
> >What I would really like to be able to do is write:
> >
> > host = string.translate(host, None, ' "')
> >
> >Am I missing a more elegant solution?
>
> I dunno, but I'd tend to use re.sub().
I should have made it clear, sorry. I don't want want to import re
because I don't need it anywhere else in my program. It's even less
elegant and probably much slower than string.translate() anyway.
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