Question

It’s for a game in which the user can input a value like “Iced tea..”
I would like to manipulate the string to return “Iced tea” without the trailing punctuation marks.

Looking for most elegant / simplest python solution.

Tried

def last_character(word):
  if word.endswith('.' or ','):
      word = word[:-1]
  return word 

which works if there’s only one punctuation mark at the end. But it’s not all-encompassing.

Found a Java solution:

String resultString = subjectString.replaceAll("([a-z]+)[?:!.,;]*", "$1");

Answer 1

>>> 'words!?.,;:'.rstrip('?:!.,;')
'words'