stripping out unwanted characters in string

[Ken Seehof]

"Jerry F. Davis" wrote:

> Howdy:
>
> I have a string that has some unwanted characters in it.
> Octal 240 for instance.

>>> import string
>>> string.replace("s\240p\240a\240m","\240","")
'spam'

> I want to actually strip them out of my string.

Can't exactly do that.  Strings are immutable.  If you don't know what
I mean by immutable, find out (mutability is a key concept of python).

(Hint: if strings were not immutable, they could not be safely used as
keys in dictionaries.)

So you'll have to settle for:

>>> s = "s\240p\240a\240m"
>>> s = string.replace(s, "\240", "")
>>> print s
spam

> I have looked at string.replace, but can't seem to figure out how to do
> this.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jerry
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