Deleting characters from a string

[Hans Nowak]

On 5 Jun 99, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> string.translate can delete characters from a string, as well as
> translate them.  But what if I want *only* to delete them?  Currently
> I do this:
> 
> dummytable = string.maketrans('', '')
> 
> ...
>   host = string.translate(host, dummytable, ' "')
> ...
> 
> What I would really like to be able to do is write:
> 
>   host = string.translate(host, None, ' "')
> 
> Am I missing a more elegant solution?

Hmm... how about

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

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

--Hans Nowak (ivnowa at hvision.nl)
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