On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:52:36 -0700, Abandoned wrote: > Hi.. > I want to delete all now allowed characters in my text. > I use this function: > > def clear(s1=""): > if s1: > allowed = > [u'+',u'0',u'1',u'2',u'3',u'4',u'5',u'6',u'7',u'8',u'9',u' ', u'Ş', > u'ş', u'Ö', u'ö', u'Ü', u'ü', u'Ç', u'ç', u'İ', u'ı', u'Ğ', u'ğ', 'A', > 'C', 'B', 'E', 'D', 'G', 'F', 'I', 'H', 'K', 'J', 'M', 'L', 'O', 'N', > 'Q', 'P', 'S', 'R', 'U', 'T', 'W', 'V', 'Y', 'X', 'Z', 'a', 'c', 'b', > 'e', 'd', 'g', 'f', 'i', 'h', 'k', 'j', 'm', 'l', 'o', 'n', 'q', 'p', > 's', 'r', 'u', 't', 'w', 'v', 'y', 'x', 'z'] > s1 = "".join(ch for ch in s1 if ch in allowed) > return s1 > > ....And my problem this function replace the character to "" but i > want to " " > for example: > input: Exam%^^ple > output: Exam ple > I want to this output but in my code output "Example" > How can i do quickly because the text is very long..
the list comprehension does not allow "else", but it can be used in a similar form: s2 = "" for ch in s1: s2 += ch if ch in allowed else " " (maybe this could be written more nicely) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list