Removing Space and "-" from a string

[Ahmed, Shakir]

Thanks, works exactly what I needed.

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On May 20, 11:02 am, "Ahmed, Shakir" <shah... at sfwmd.gov> wrote:
> I have thousands of records in MS Access database table, which records
I
> am fetching using python script. One of the columns having string like
> '8 58-2155-58'
>
> Desired output: '858215558'
>
> I want to remove any spaces between string and any dashes between
> strings. I could do it in access manually but want to do from python
> script
>
> Any help is highly appreciated.

string.replace('-', '').replace(' ', '')
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