> 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..
Any reason your alphabet is oddly entered? You can speed it up by using a set. You can also tweak your join to choose a space if the letter isn't one of your allowed letters: import string allowed = set( string.letters + string.digits + ' +' + u'ŞşÖöÜüÇçİıĞğ') def clear(s): return "".join( letter in allowed and letter or " " for letter in s) In Python 2.5, there's a ternary operator syntax something like the following (which I can't test, as I'm not at a PC with 2.5 installed) def clear(s): return "".join( letter if letter in allowed else " " for letter in s) which some find more readable...I don't particularly care for either syntax. The latter is 2.5-specific and makes more sense, but still isn't as readable as I would have liked; while the former works versions of python back to at least 2.2 which I still have access to, and is a well documented idiom/hack. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list