Removing substring of from a list of strings

Question

There are several countries with numbers and/or parenthesis in my list. How I remove these?

e.g.

\'Bolivia (Plurinational State of)\' should be \'Bolivi

Answer 1

You can remove string by this way:-

Remove numbers:-

import re
a = 'Switzerland17'
pattern = '[0-9]'
res = re.sub(pattern, '', a)
print(res)

Output:-

'Switzerland'

Remove parenthesis:-

b = 'Bolivia (Plurinational State of)'
pattern2 = '(\s*\(.*\))'
res2 = re.sub(pattern2, '', b)
print(res2)

Output:-

'Bolivia'