"Paul Hankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 20, 5:02 pm, "Ahmed, Shakir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have thousands of records in MS Access database table, which records I > am fetching using python script. One of the columns having string like > '8 58-2155-58' > > Desired output: '858215558'
|def cleanup(s): | return filter(lambda x: x not in ' -', s) Or >>> s='8 58-2155-58' >>> t=str.maketrans('','',' -') >>> s.translate(t) '858215558' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list