[Tutor] removing whole numbers from text

[Alan Gauld]

"Dinesh B Vadhia" <dineshbvadhia at hotmail.com> wrote

> I want to remove whole numbers from text but retain numbers
> attached to words.

Is this a homework?
If so we can only offer suggestions to direction but not give 
solutions.

> What is the best to do this using re?

Yes, use re to define a pattern then use sub() to replace with
an empty string

Alan G.






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