stripping characters with regex

[Skip Montanaro]

    Jeff> I need urgent assistance. I'm cleaning up text strings containing
    Jeff> ' ,",\ and / characters which are giving an enormous headache.

How about

    re.sub(r"""[\\'"/]""", "", y)

Example:

    >>> s = r''' "\''"//\/' '''
    >>> s
    ' "\\\'\'"//\\/\' '
    >>> re.sub(r"""[\\'"/]""", "", s)
    '  '

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