Deleting specific characters from a string

[Behrang Dadsetan]

Donn Cave wrote:
> In article <5ab0af73.0307091044.254f5aab at posting.google.com>,
>  MatthewS at HeyAnita.com (Matt Shomphe) wrote:
>>Maybe a new method should be added to the str class, called "remove". 
>>It would take a list of characters and remove them from the string:
> Check out the translate function - that's what its optional
> deletions argument is for.

 >>> str = 'You are Ben at orange?enter&your&code'
 >>> str.translate(string.maketrans('',''), '@&')
and
 >>> str.replace('&', '').replace('@', '')
are also ugly...

The first version is completely unreadable. I guess my initial example 
''.join([ c for c in str if c not in ('@', '&')]) was easier to read 
than the translate (who would guess -without having to peek in the 
documentation of translate- that that line deletes @ and &?!)  but I am 
not sure ;)

while the second becomes acceptable. The examples you gave me use the 
string module.
I think I read somewhere that the methods of the object should rather be 
used than the string module. Is that right?

Thanks anyhow, I will go for the replace(something, '') method.
Ben.