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

[Chris Barker]

Ryan LeCompte wrote:
> Try this:
> 
> Python 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> IDLE 0.8 -- press F1 for help
> >>>import string
> >>>f = string.maketrans('', '')
> >>>string.translate('hello99there', f, string.letters)
> '99'

This only gets rid of letter, not any other character:


>>> string.translate('hello9-9there', f, string.letters)
'9-9'

If I understood correctly, what the poster wanted was to remove
everything that isn't a number. this works, however:

>>> remove = f.replace("0123456789","")
>>> string.translate('hello9-9there', f, remove)
'99'


-Chris


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