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
You don't need to make allowed a list. Make it a string, it is easier to read. allowed = u'+0123456789 ŞşÖöÜüÇçİıĞğ' \ u'ACBEDGFIHKJMLONQPSRUTWVYXZacbedgfihkjmlonqpsrutwvyxz' > ....And my problem this function replace the character to "" but i want > to " " > for example: > input: Exam%^^ple > output: Exam ple I think the most obvious way is this: def clear(s): allowed = u'+0123456789 ŞşÖöÜüÇçİıĞğ' \ u'ACBEDGFIHKJMLONQPSRUTWVYXZacbedgfihkjmlonqpsrutwvyxz' L = [] for ch in s: if ch in allowed: L.append(ch) else: L.append(" ") return ''.join(s) Perhaps a better way is to use a translation table: def clear(s): allowed = u'+0123456789 ŞşÖöÜüÇçİıĞğ' \ u'ACBEDGFIHKJMLONQPSRUTWVYXZacbedgfihkjmlonqpsrutwvyxz' not_allowed = [i for i in range(0x110000) if unichr(i) not in allowed] table = dict(zip(not_allowed, u" "*len(not_allowed))) return s.translate(table) Even better is to pre-calculate the translation table, so it is calculated only when needed: TABLE = None def build_table(): global TABLE if TABLE is None: allowed = u'+0123456789 ŞşÖöÜüÇçİıĞğ' \ u'ACBEDGFIHKJMLONQPSRUTWVYXZacbedgfihkjmlonqpsrutwvyxz' not_allowed = \ [i for i in range(0x110000) if unichr(i) not in allowed] TABLE = dict(zip(not_allowed, u" "*len(not_allowed))) return TABLE def clear(s): return s.translate(build_table()) The first time you call clear(), it will take a second or so to build the translation table, but then it will be very fast. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list