There's got to be an easy way to do this

[Lindstrom Greg - glinds]

I am reading in a phone number field and would like to throw away everything
except the digits.  Being an old C programmer, I know how I would do this.
Even with my limited knowledge of Python, I know how I would do it:

	stripped_phone=''
	for c in phone_number:
		if c in digits: 
			stripped_phone += c

but with all of the data structure support native to Python, I'm sure there
is "an obvious way" to do it (perhaps it's because I'm not Dutch:-).

Greg Lindstrom
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