remove special characters from line

[Irmen de Jong]

Chris Rennert wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> If I have a line like this
> 
> ²blah blah blah blah blah
> 
> I know I could do a slice like this [1:] to pull everything but the special
> character, but what if I have several lines in a file.
> I am not sure how I would detect a special character like that.  I would
> just like to pull everything from those lines (and the special character
> always appears as the first character, but not on every line) except for the
> special characters.

What about

 >>> special="*!@"   # or whatever characters are special
 >>> text="*blah blah !! blah blah at blah blah!"
 >>> ''.join([c for c in text if c not in special])
'blah blah  blah blahblah blah'


--Irmen de Jong