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Re: Find and Replace Simplification

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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')

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Find and Replace Simplification Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 09:22 -0400
  Re: Find and Replace Simplification Novocastrian_Nomad <gregory.j.baker@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 06:38 -0700
  Re: Find and Replace Simplification John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-07-19 14:28 +0000
  Re: Find and Replace Simplification Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-19 16:22 +0000
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 20:29 +0300
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-07-19 13:08 -0500
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 17:44 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-19 18:45 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-20 12:16 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-20 14:48 +0300
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-20 14:57 +0300
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-20 08:41 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-20 08:50 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-20 18:03 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-20 14:04 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-20 19:37 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-20 19:41 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-20 17:56 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-20 23:33 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 10:44 +0300
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-21 12:29 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 15:28 +0300
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-21 13:49 +0100

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