string methods (warning, newbie)

[Peter Hansen]

anthonyberet wrote:
> Is there a string mething to return only the alpha characters of a string?
> eg 'The Beatles - help - 03 - Ticket to ride', would be 
> 'TheBeatlesTickettoride'
> 
> If not then how best to approach this?
> I have some complicated plan to cut the string into individual 
> characters and then concatenate a new string with the ones that return 
> true with the .isalpha string method.
> 
> Is there an easier way?

Look into the string module's "translate" function.  It will
do this for you fairly easily.

-Peter