Replace Several Items

[John Krukoff]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 09:39 -0700, gjhames wrote:
> I wish to replace several characters in my string to only one.
> Example, "-", "." and "/" to nothing ""
> I did like that:
> my_string = my_string.replace("-", "").replace(".", "").replace("/",
> "").replace(")", "").replace("(", "")
> 
> But I think it's a ugly way.
> 
> What's the better way to do it?
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The maketrans interface is a bit clunky, but this is what
string.translate is best at:

>>> import string
>>> '-./other'.translate( string.maketrans( '', '' ), '-./' )
'other'

It'd be interesting to see where it falls in the benchmarks, though.

It's worth noting that the interface for translate is quite different
for unicode strings.
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