Question

I would like to strip ‘s (apostrophe s) from a string.

For example:

a="it's tail was big".split()
for i in range(len(a)):
    a[i]= a[i].strip(r"\'s")

a becomes

['it', 'tail', 'wa', 'big']

whereas I am expecting

['it', 'tail', 'was', 'big']

How do I make it strip ‘s and not s ? I tried strip(r”\’s”) too & it doesn’t work either.

And

Is there a better way to do this than what I have done?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can replace the 's with empty string and then split.

>>> txt ="it's tail was big"
>>> txt.replace("'s", '').split()
['it', 'tail', 'was', 'big']