How can I remove multiple special characters from a string?

Asked Dec 17 '15 at 01:57

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I'm going to be comparing user input to the values in a list that I have, say a list called names. What's the best way to remove special characters, such as periods(.), hyphens(-), and/or apostrophes(') so that I can compare them with the list names?

So for instance, my list would be somewhat similar to this:

names = ["john", "mike", "mark", "obrien", "lisamarie"]

Now let's say the user enters Lisa-Marie or O'Brien. How can I convert the user input into lisamarie or obrien?

Thanks for your help, guys! :)

asked Dec 17 '15 at 01:57

Mikey

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`str.translate()` and `str.lower()`. – eph Dec 17 '15 at 02:00
You can also see [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5843518/remove-all-special-characters-punctuation-and-spaces-from-string). – TigerhawkT3 Dec 17 '15 at 02:02

How can I remove multiple special characters from a string?

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