Removing unwanted characters from a string in Python

Question

I have some strings that I want to delete some unwanted characters from them. For example: Adam\'sApple ----> AdamsApple.(case insensitive) Can someone help

Answer 1

Any characters in the 2nd argument of the translate method are deleted:

>>> "Adam's Apple!".translate(None,"'!")
'Adams Apple'

NOTE: translate requires Python 2.6 or later to use None for the first argument, which otherwise must be a translation string of length 256. string.maketrans('','') can be used in place of None for pre-2.6 versions.