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Thanks! It worked! But why didn't I see functions : translate(), maketrans(), rstrip(), etc. listed when I called print(dir(string))?

On Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:45:05 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 
> > import string
> 
> > s = "string. With. Punctuation?"
> 
> > out = s.translate(string.maketrans("",""), string.punctuation)
> 
> 
> 
> Try this instead:
> 
> 
> 
> import string
> 
> s = "string. With. Punctuation?"
> 
> out = s.translate(str.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation))
> 
> 
> 
> Due to the changes in string handling (s is a Unicode string in Python
> 
> 3, not a string of bytes), str.translate() got changed. Check out
> 
> help(str.maketrans) and help(str.translate) in interactive Python for
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> more details.
> 
> 
> 
> ChrisA