Removing all occurences of a character from a string.

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Under later Python versions (such as 2.2.1), you can do the following:

attr = [[item.replace("'","") for item in element] for element in attr]

Which is rather elegant IMO.  It also has the side-effect of _not_ 
rewriting the data in-place in your original list, instead just 
replacing that list when we are finished creating the new list, which 
may or may not be desirable for you.

HTH,
Mike

PS: Always nice to hear from another Canadian Pythonista :)

Sean Ross wrote:
> Thank you Justin.
> 
> How about this, then:
> 
> I have a list of lists of these strings and I want to apply replace to each
> string in the list of lists.
> 
> So, say:
> 
> attr = [ ["'gill-attachment'", "'a'", "'d'", "'f'",
> "'n'"],["'gill-spacing'", "'c'", "'d'", "'w'"], ["'gill-size'", "'b'",
> "'n'"]]
> 
> I can do the following:
> for i in xrange(0, len(attr)):
>     for j in xrange(0,len(attr[i])):
>          attr[i][j] = attr[i][j].replace("'","")
> 
> to get what I want; which is:
> [ ['gill-attachment', 'a', 'd', 'f', 'n'],['gill-spacing', 'c', 'd', 'w'],
> ['gill-size', 'b', 'n']]
> 
> Is there a nicer way to do this?
> Sean
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