On Friday, July 19, 2013 7:22:48 AM UTC-6, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote: > I have some code that I want to simplify. I know that a for-loop would > > work well, but can I make re.sub perform all of the below tasks at once, > or can I write this in a way that is more efficient than using a for-loop? > > DATA = re.sub(',', '', 'DATA') > DATA = re.sub('\'', '', 'DATA') > DATA = re.sub('(', '', 'DATA') > DATA = re.sub(')', '', 'DATA')
Try DATA = re.sub(r'[(,\\)]', '', 'DATA') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list