[Tutor] wierd replace problem

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:08 PM, bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 9/13/2010 1:50 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>  hello Alan,
>>
>> Your right. Then it prints like this "'tis
>> Which is not right. It must be tis.
>> So the replace does not what it supposed to do.
>>
>>  Sorry but I am now more confused. After discovering no \ in the text file
> now you seem to have have a new specification, which is to get rid of the '.
>
> I suggest you give a clear, complete and correct problem statement. Right
> now we are shooting in the dark at a moving target.
>
> Something like.
>
> Given the file alice_in_wonderland.txt, copied from url so-and-so
>
> Remove these characters ...
>
> Split into words (not letters?) where word is defined as
>
> Count the frequency of each word.
>
>
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How about using str.split() to put words in a list, then run strip() over
each word with the required characters to be removed ('`")

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Joel Goldstick
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