removing characters from a string?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8m4rqn+jpg0 at eGroups.com>,  <jesse at multimediacollective.com> wrote:
>
>this_string = "jesse at multimediacollective.com"
>
>"""and I wanted to get rid of the @, how would I do that? This 
>process has to be efficent for removing large quantities of special 
>characters, such as <,>,#,%,* etc, from the same string.  

string.translate(,,deletechars) is the fastest.
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