Deleting specific characters from a string

[Behrang Dadsetan]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 23:36:03 +0200, Behrang Dadsetan <ben at dadsetan.com> wrote:
> ====< removechars.py >========================================================
> def removeChars(s, remove=''):
>     return s.translate(
>         '\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\t\n\x0b\x0c\r\x0e\x0f'
>         '\x10\x11\x12\x13\x14\x15\x16\x17\x18\x19\x1a\x1b\x1c\x1d\x1e\x1f'
>         ' !"#$%&\'()*+,-./'
>         '0123456789:;<=>?'
>         '@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO'
>         'PQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_'
>         '`abcdefghijklmno'
>         'pqrstuvwxyz{|}~\x7f'
>         '\x80\x81\x82\x83\x84\x85\x86\x87\x88\x89\x8a\x8b\x8c\x8d\x8e\x8f'
>         '\x90\x91\x92\x93\x94\x95\x96\x97\x98\x99\x9a\x9b\x9c\x9d\x9e\x9f'
>         '\xa0\xa1\xa2\xa3\xa4\xa5\xa6\xa7\xa8\xa9\xaa\xab\xac\xad\xae\xaf'
>         '\xb0\xb1\xb2\xb3\xb4\xb5\xb6\xb7\xb8\xb9\xba\xbb\xbc\xbd\xbe\xbf'
>         '\xc0\xc1\xc2\xc3\xc4\xc5\xc6\xc7\xc8\xc9\xca\xcb\xcc\xcd\xce\xcf'
>         '\xd0\xd1\xd2\xd3\xd4\xd5\xd6\xd7\xd8\xd9\xda\xdb\xdc\xdd\xde\xdf'
>         '\xe0\xe1\xe2\xe3\xe4\xe5\xe6\xe7\xe8\xe9\xea\xeb\xec\xed\xee\xef'
>         '\xf0\xf1\xf2\xf3\xf4\xf5\xf6\xf7\xf8\xf9\xfa\xfb\xfc\xfd\xfe\xff'
>         , remove)
<snip>
It looks to me like serious overkill. If I would put in a method like 
that somewhere in my code, my colleagues would never talk to me again ;)

Ben.