[Tutor] wierd replace problem

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:18:36 am Joel Goldstick wrote:
>
> > How about using str.split() to put words in a list, then run strip()
> > over each word with the required characters to be removed ('`")
>
>
> Doesn't work. strip() only removes characters at the beginning and end
> of the word, not in the middle:
>


Exactly, you first split the words into a list of words, then strip each
word



> >>> "'I can't do this'".strip("'")
> "I can't do this"
>
> If the aim is to remove all quotation marks, replace() is the right way
> to go about it. It's not that hard either.
>
> text = text.replace("'", "").replace('"', "").replace("`", "")
>
> will remove all "standard" quotation marks, although if the source text
> contains non-English or unusual unicode quotes, you will need to do
> more work.
>
> Or if you prefer something more easily extendable to other characters:
>
> for c in "\"'`":
>    text = text.replace(c, "")
>
>
>
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