removing characters from a string?

[Carsten Gaebler]

I'd give re.sub() a try.

Carsten.


jesse at multimediacollective.com wrote:
> say I had a string.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any advice would be very helpful.  Thanks in advance, Jesse.