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Reputation: 22440

Unable to kick out unwanted characters from a long string

How can I remove unwanted characters from a long text using .replace() or any of that sort. Symbols I wish to kick out from the text are ',',{,},[,] (commas are not included). My existing text is:

{'SearchText':'319 lizzie','ResultList':[{'PropertyQuickRefID':'R016698','PropertyType':'Real'}],'TaxYear':2018}

I tried with the below code:

content='''
{'SearchText':'319 lizzie','ResultList':[{'PropertyQuickRefID':'R016698','PropertyType':'Real'}],'TaxYear':2018}
'''
print(content.replace("'",""))

Output I got: [btw, If i keep going like .replace().replace() with different symbols in it then it works but i wish to do the same in a single instance if its possible]

{SearchText:319 lizzie,ResultList:[{PropertyQuickRefID:R016698,PropertyType:Real}],TaxYear:2018}

I wish i could use replace function like .replace("',{,},[,]",""). However, I'm not after any solution derived from regex. String manipulation is what I expected. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 114

Answers (1)

Patrick Artner
Patrick Artner

Reputation: 51653

content=r"{'SearchText':'319 lizzie','ResultList':[{'PropertyQuickRefID':'R016698','PropertyType':'Real'}],'TaxYear':2018}"

igno = "{}[]''´´``''"
cleaned = ''.join([x for x in content if x not in igno])

print(cleaned)

PyFiddle 3.6:

SearchText:319 lizzie,ResultList:PropertyQuickRefID:R016698,PropertyType:Real,TaxYear:2018

In 2.7 I get an error:

Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file main.py on line 3, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

wich can be fixed by adding # This Python file uses the following encoding: utf-8 as 1st line in source code - which then gives identical output.

Upvotes: 4

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