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

Let's say we have the following list:

states = [' Alabama ', 'Georgia!', 'Georgia', 'georgia', 'south carolina##', 'West virginia?']

Now we will define a function clean_strings()

import re

def clean_strings(strings):
    result = []
    for value in strings:
        value = value.strip()
        value = re.sub('[!#?]', '', value)
        value = value.title()
        result.append(value)
    return result

When we call the function clean_strings(states)

The result will look like:

['Alabama',
'Georgia',
'Georgia',
'Georgia',
'Florida',
'South Carolina',
'West Virginia']