[Tutor] FW: wierd replace problem

[Roelof Wobben]

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> From: rwobben at hotmail.com
> To: joel.goldstick at gmail.com
> Subject: RE: [Tutor] wierd replace problem
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:23:36 +0000
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>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:18:36 -0400
>> From: joel.goldstick at gmail.com
>> To: tutor at python.org
>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] wierd replace problem
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>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:08 PM, bob gailer
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>> On 9/13/2010 1:50 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:
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>> hello Alan,
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>> Your right. Then it prints like this "'tis
>> Which is not right. It must be tis.
>> So the replace does not what it supposed to do.
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>> Sorry but I am now more confused. After discovering no \ in the text
>> file now you seem to have have a new specification, which is to get rid
>> of the '.
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>> I suggest you give a clear, complete and correct problem statement.
>> Right now we are shooting in the dark at a moving target.
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>> Something like.
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>> Given the file alice_in_wonderland.txt, copied from url so-and-so
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>> Remove these characters ...
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>> Split into words (not letters?) where word is defined as
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>> Count the frequency of each word.
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>> --
>> Bob Gailer
>> 919-636-4239
>> Chapel Hill NC
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>> How about using str.split() to put words in a list, then run strip()
>> over each word with the required characters to be removed ('`")
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>> --
>> Joel Goldstick
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Hello Joel.

That can be a solution but when i have --dark the -- must be removed.
But in a-piece the - must not be removed.

Roelof