Deleting characters from a string

[Hrvoje Niksic]

"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:

> It's (yours, not mine ...) a decent idea; in the meantime how about
> writing a little wrapper
> 
> def deletechars(s, todelete, id=string.maketrans('', '')):
>     return string.translate(s, id, todelete)

I think I'd rather write a patch that allows None as the second
argument to string.translate(), if that's OK with the developers.

Thanks for the tip, though.