string methods (warning, newbie)

[anthonyberet]

Jimmy Retzlaff wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> The approach you are considering may be easier than you think:
> 
> 
>>>>filter(str.isalpha, 'The Beatles - help - 03 - Ticket to ride')
> 
> 'TheBeatleshelpTickettoride'
> 
Thanks very much - that's the level of knowledge of Python that I just 
don't have yet - everything I try to do seems to have a much easier way, 
that I haven't encountered yet :)

I shall read up on the elements of your code to understand exactly what 
it is doing.