On May 20, 5:02 pm, "Ahmed, Shakir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have thousands of records in MS Access database table, which records I > am fetching using python script. One of the columns having string like > '8 58-2155-58' > > Desired output: '858215558' > > I want to remove any spaces between string and any dashes between > strings. I could do it in access manually but want to do from python > script
'filter' returns a string if it's argument is a string, so works nicely here. def cleanup(s): return filter(lambda x: x not in ' -', s) -- Paul Hankin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list