string methods (warning, newbie)

[anthonyberet]

Is there a string mething to return only the alpha characters of a string?
eg 'The Beatles - help - 03 - Ticket to ride', would be
'TheBeatlesTickettoride'

If not then how best to approach this?
I have some complicated plan to cut the string into individual
characters and then concatenate a new string with the ones that return
true with the .isalpha string method.

Is there an easier way?

 

[anthonyberet]

Is there a string mething [method] to return only the alpha characters of a string?
eg 'The Beatles - help - 03 - Ticket to ride', would be
'TheBeatlesTickettoride'

erm, no it wouldn't, it would be 'TheBeatleshelpTickettoride', but you
get me, I am sure.

 

[Peter Hansen]

Is there a string mething to return only the alpha characters of a string?
eg 'The Beatles - help - 03 - Ticket to ride', would be
'TheBeatlesTickettoride'

If not then how best to approach this?
I have some complicated plan to cut the string into individual
characters and then concatenate a new string with the ones that return
true with the .isalpha string method.

Is there an easier way?

Look into the string module's "translate" function. It will
do this for you fairly easily.

-Peter

 

[Terry Reedy]

Is there a string mething to return only the alpha characters of a
string?
eg 'The Beatles - help - 03 - Ticket to ride', would be
'TheBeatlesTickettoride'

I believe you can do this with string.translate (string module, not str())

tjr