Anthonyberet wrote: > 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?
The approach you are considering may be easier than you think: >>> filter(str.isalpha, 'The Beatles - help - 03 - Ticket to ride') 'TheBeatleshelpTickettoride' Jimmy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
