Stripping characters from the middle of a string

Question

I know you can strip out white spaces from a string. For example:

abc = " hello everyone "
cba = abc.strip()
print(cba) # output would be "hello everyone" with no spaces either side

However, is it possible to strip characters out of a string? my first initial guess was:

eee = "hello everyone"
rrr = eee.strip(l)

In which I was hoping for the output to be "heo world", but I was met with an error instead

I have also tried replacing.

strip

with:

remove

But still, no luck.

Read the [documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.strip) of `strip`. — Corralien, Nov 15 '21 at 19:01
`rrr = eee.strip(l)` That's wrong for two reasons. First, `l` isn't in quotes, so it treats `l` as a variable name. Second, `strip()` only removes leading/trailing characters, and the L's are in the middle. — John Gordon, Nov 15 '21 at 19:01
Does this answer your question? [Remove specific characters from a string in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3939361/remove-specific-characters-from-a-string-in-python) — mkrieger1, Nov 15 '21 at 19:14

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '21 at 19:04

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I think you're looking for the replace method. So for your example, it'd be:

greeing = "hello everyone"
replaced_version = greeting.replace("l", "")
replaced_version # returns 'heo everyone'

answered Nov 15 '21 at 19:04

Alex

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