Jimmy Retzlaff wrote:
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'

Thanks very much - that's the level of knowledge of Python that I just don't have yet - everything I try to do seems to have a much easier way, that I haven't encountered yet :)

I shall read up on the elements of your code to understand exactly what it is doing.
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