Eat this one

[Steve Purcell]

Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:
> I feel ashamed to show the code, but I didn't find any other solution :)
> 
> What way would be better and _faster_ to wipe out the five chars from
> the list?

Here is a nice readable way:

    >>> import string
    >>> s = 'here is < some > text with& nasty characters'
    >>> for badchar in "<>&\n":
    ...   s = string.replace(s,badchar,'')
    ... 
    >>> s
    'here is  some  text with nasty characters'

And using regular expressions:

    >>> import re
    >>> s2 = re.sub('[<>&\n]', '', s)
    >>> s2 
    'here is  some  text with nasty characters'


-Steve


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