Removing Space and "-" from a string

[Terry Reedy]

"Paul Hankin" <paul.hankin at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On May 20, 5:02 pm, "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'

|def cleanup(s):
|    return filter(lambda x: x not in ' -', s)

Or
>>> s='8 58-2155-58'
>>> t=str.maketrans('','',' -')
>>> s.translate(t)
'858215558'