Ignore single character/letter in a string

Question

How do you ignore a single character or symbol in a string

I want to ignore the ! and / in text or actually just the first character no matter what it was.

For example, something like this:

text = ['!kick', '/ban']

the output should look like this:

>> kick
>> ban

instead of:

>> !kick
>> /ban

Have you tried any solutions? Also, are you writing an IRC bot? If so, please state in the question. Finally, elaborate more on your scenario. — wei2912, Sep 12 '13 at 16:01

Tyler · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-12T16:12:23.020

2

text = ['!kick', '/ban', '!k!ck']
for s in text:
    print s[0].translate(None, '!/') + s[1:]

output:
kick
ban
k!ck

In the second parameter of translate() put all of the characters you want to get rid of.

edited Sep 12 '13 at 16:12

answered Sep 12 '13 at 16:07

Tyler

For future visitors: translate() works way differently in Python3. And Python2 is no longer supported. New link: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.translate – bobsbeenjamin Dec 10 '20 at 02:02

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 12 '13 at 16:06

1

To remove a specific char:

s=s.replace("!","") #!4g!hk becomes 4ghk

To remove 1st char:

s=s[1:]

answered Sep 12 '13 at 16:06

Nacib Neme

What do you mean with s=s? – Frederik Sep 12 '13 at 16:08
At time t0, s=='!kick', s[1:]=='kick'\n At time t1, s=='kick' – zyc Mar 08 '18 at 20:59

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 12 '13 at 16:09

1

Since you want to remove certain characters in the first position of the string, I'd suggest using str.lstrip().

for cmd in ['!kick', '/ban']:
    print cmd.lstrip('!/')

answered Sep 12 '13 at 16:09

kindall

TabeaKischka · Answer 4 · 2013-09-13T11:43:45.360

-2

Just use python's replace function:

for elem in ['!kick', '/ban']:
  print elem.replace('!','').replace('/','')

Output should look like this:

>> kick
>> ban

edited Sep 13 '13 at 11:43

answered Sep 12 '13 at 16:04

TabeaKischka

Sorry, I forgot the '' in the second replace command. However, Python's Error message "TypeError: replace() takes at least 2 arguments (1 given)" is quite easy to understand, so you could have guessed that yourself – TabeaKischka Sep 13 '13 at 11:44

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