Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Jun 16 20:13:19 EDT 2008

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Cédric Lucantis wrote:

> I don't see any string method to do that

 >>> 'abcde'.translate(str.maketrans('','','bcd'))
'ae'

I do not claim this to be better than all the other methods,
but this pair can also translate while deleting, which others cannot.

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