Question

I’d like to replace " and -

with "" nothing! make it disappear.

s = re.sub(r'[^\w\s]', '', s) this makes all punctuation disappear, but I just want those 2 characters. Thanks.

Answer 1

I’m curious as to why you are using a regular expression for this simple string replacement. The only advantage that I can see is that you can do it in one line of code instead of two, but I personally think that a replacement method is clearer than a regex for something like this.

The string object has a replace method – str.replace(old, new[, count]), so use replace("-", "") and replace("\"", "").

Note that my syntax might be a little off – I’m still a python beginner.