Pythonic way to replace multiple characters in a string

Asked Apr 13 '16 at 01:42

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I am looking for a pythonic way to replace multiple characters in a string.

For Example: "Sault Ste. Marie" to "SaultSteMarie"

I know that I can use the replace function here:

"Sault Ste. Marie".replace(' ', '').replace('.', '')

but I am looking for a more elegant solution.

asked Apr 13 '16 at 01:42

Zain Khan

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I believe the best you'll find in that regard would use the `re` module: `re.sub(r"[\s.]", "Sault Ste. Marie")` – tblznbits Apr 13 '16 at 01:44
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@brittenb, you have a little mistake, without second argument: re.sub(r"[\s.]", "", "Sault Ste. Marie") – JRazor Apr 13 '16 at 03:02
@JRazor correct, thank you – tblznbits Apr 13 '16 at 11:19

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