Newbie question

[Shawn Milochik]

On 9/18/07, koutoo at hotmail.com <koutoo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> If I have a file name: AVC1030708.14.  How do I strip out certain
> characters from the file name?  I am so used to using MID, LEFT, and
> RIGHT functions, that I have no idea how to do this in python?  I have
> had trouble as well with most newbies on finding the help.  But I have
> used the command line built in help, but with no luck.  Thanks.
>
> Kou


Do you want to strip out specific characters, characters in specific
positions, or characters matching certain patterns?