Deleting characters from a string

[Magnus L. Hetland]

"Hans Nowak" <ivnowa at hvision.nl> writes:

> On 5 Jun 99, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> 
[...]
> host = filter(lambda c: not c in ' "', host)

Or - IMO more appropriately <wink>:

  host = filter(lambda c: c not in ' "', host)

> 
> Depends on how much you like, or hate, functional idiom, though. :)

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