string methods (warning, newbie)

[Terry Reedy]

"anthonyberet" <nospam at me.invalid> wrote in message 
news:38co9sF5lgss3U1 at individual.net...
> Is there a string mething to return only the alpha characters of a 
> string?
> eg 'The Beatles - help - 03 - Ticket to ride', would be 
> 'TheBeatlesTickettoride'

I believe you can do this with string.translate (string module, not str())

tjr