"Kent Johnson" wrote in message
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Dinesh B Vadhia
wrote:
Okay, here is a combination of Mark's suggestions and yours:
# replace unwanted chars in string s with " "
t = "".join([(" " if n in
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Dinesh B Vadhia
wrote:
> Okay, here is a combination of Mark's suggestions and yours:
>> # replace unwanted chars in string s with " "
>> t = "".join([(" " if n in c else n) for n in s if n not in c])
>> t
> 'Product ConceptsHard candy with an innovative twist, In
;Product ConceptsHard candy with an innovative twist, Internet Archive: Wayback
Machine. [online] Mar. 25, 2004. Retrieved from the Internet http://www.confectionery-innovations.com>.'
This last bit doesn't work ie. replacing the unwanted chars with " " - eg.
'ConceptsHar
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Dinesh B Vadhia
wrote:
> # 3) Replacing a set of characters with a single character ie.
>
> for c in str:
> if c in set:
> string.replace (c, r)
>
> to give
>
>> 'Chris Perkins : $$$-'
> My solution is:
>
> print ''.join[string.replace(c, r) for c
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote:
> My solution is:
>
> print ''.join[string.replace(c, r) for c in str if c in set]
>
> But, this returns a syntax error. Any idea why?
>
Probably because you didn't use parentheses - join() is a function.
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r:
if c in set:
string.replace (c, r)
to give
> 'Chris Perkins : $$$-'
My solution is:
print ''.join[string.replace(c, r) for c in str if c in set]
But, this returns a syntax error. Any idea why?
Ta!
Dinesh
From: Kent Johnson
Sent: Thursday, Februar
A regex isn't always the best solution:
>>> a=''.join(chr(n) for n in range(256))
>>> a
'\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\t\n\x0b\x0c\r\x0e\x0f\x10\x11\x12\x13\x14\x15\x16\x17\x18\x19\x1a\x1b\x1c\x1d\x1e\x1f
!"#$%&\'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?...@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmno
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Dinesh B Vadhia
wrote:
> I want a regex to remove control characters (< chr(32) and > chr(126)) from
> strings ie.
>
> line = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9-';.]", " ", line) # replace all chars NOT A-Z,
> a-z, 0-9, [-';.] with " "
>
> 1. What is the best way to include all
