'string'.strip(chars)-like function that removes from the middle?

[Sion Arrowsmith]

In article <g37pur$k5o$00$1 at news.t-online.com>,
Peter Otten  <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
>Terry Reedy wrote:
>>  >>> 'abcde'.translate(str.maketrans('','','bcd'))
>> 'ae'
>You should mention that you are using Python 3.0 ;) 
>The 2.5 equivalent would be
>
>>>> u"abcde".translate(dict.fromkeys(map(ord, u"bcd")))
>u'ae'

Only if you're using Unicode:

>>> 'abcde'.translate(string.maketrans('',''), 'bcd')
'ae'
>>> sys.version_info
(2, 4, 4, 'final', 0)

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