Re: 'string'.strip(chars)-like function that removes from the middle?

[Terry Reedy]

Cédric Lucantis wrote:

I don't see any string method to do that

>>'abcde'.translate(str.maketrans('','','bcd'))

'ae'

I do not claim this to be better than all the other methods,
but this pair can also translate while deleting, which others cannot.

[Peter Otten]

Terry Reedy wrote:

Cédric Lucantis wrote:

>I don't see any string method to do that

>>'abcde'.translate(str.maketrans('','','bcd'))

'ae'

I do not claim this to be better than all the other methods,
but this pair can also translate while deleting, which others cannot.

You should mention that you are using Python 3.0 ;)
The 2.5 equivalent would be

>>u"abcde".translate(dict.fromkeys(map(ord, u"bcd")))

u'ae'

Peter

[Sion Arrowsmith]

In article <g3*************@news.t-online.com>,
Peter Otten <__*******@web.dewrote:

>Terry Reedy wrote:

> >>'abcde'.translate(str.maketrans('','','bcd'))

'ae'

You should mention that you are using Python 3.0 ;)
The 2.5 equivalent would be

>>>u"abcde".translate(dict.fromkeys(map(ord, u"bcd")))

u'ae'

Only if you're using Unicode:

>>'abcde'.translate(string.maketrans('',''), 'bcd')

'ae'

>>sys.version_info

(2, 4, 4, 'final', 0)

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[Peter Otten]

Sion Arrowsmith wrote:

In article <g3*************@news.t-online.com>,
Peter Otten <__*******@web.dewrote:

>>Terry Reedy wrote:

>> >>'abcde'.translate(str.maketrans('','','bcd'))
'ae'

You should mention that you are using Python 3.0 ;)
The 2.5 equivalent would be

>>>>u"abcde".translate(dict.fromkeys(map(ord, u"bcd")))

u'ae'

Only if you're using Unicode:

.... which is what you do if you are using the str type in 3.0.

Peter

[Terry Reedy]

Peter Otten wrote:

Terry Reedy wrote:

>Cédric Lucantis wrote:

>>I don't see any string method to do that
'abcde'.translate(str.maketrans('','','bcd'))

'ae'

I do not claim this to be better than all the other methods,
but this pair can also translate while deleting, which others cannot.

You should mention that you are using Python 3.0 ;)
The 2.5 equivalent would be

>>>u"abcde".translate(dict.fromkeys(map(ord, u"bcd")))

u'ae'

Sorry. I did not realize that the maketrans function had not then been
moved from the string module to the str class object, unlike nearly all
other functions from string, including the translate function. I also
misremembered that maketrans did not have the new third delete param.
What I did do once long ago was something like

>>import string
a = 'abcde'.translate(string.maketrans('bd','**'))
a.replace('*','')

'ace'

which is not very nice.

tjr