Removing all digits from a string on python

Question

So i need some help on removing the digits from this string

import re

g=\"C0N4rtist\"

re.sub(r\'\\W\',\'\',g)\'

Answer 1

Use \d for digits:

>>> import re
>>> g = "C0N4rtist"
>>> re.sub(r'\d+', '', g)
'CNrtist'

Note that you don't need regex for this, str.translate is very fast compared to the regex version

>>> from string import digits
>>> g.translate(None, digits)
'CNrtist'

Timings:

>>> g = "C0N4rtist"*100
>>> %timeit g.translate(None, digits)      #winner
100000 loops, best of 3: 9.98 us per loop
>>> %timeit ''.join(i for i in g if not i.isdigit())
1000 loops, best of 3: 507 us per loop
>>> %timeit re.sub(r'\d+', '', g)
1000 loops, best of 3: 253 us per loop
>>> %timeit ''.join([i for i in g if not i.isdigit()])
1000 loops, best of 3: 352 us per loop
>>> %timeit ''.join([i for i in g if i not in digits])
1000 loops, best of 3: 277 us per loop

Answer 2

There is no need to use regex for this. you can use isdigit() function

   def removeDigitsFromStr(_str):
        result = ''.join(i for i in _str if not i.isdigit())
        return result