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I need to make a function that takes two strings as imnput and returns a copy of str 1 with all characters from str2 removed.
First thing is to iterate over str1 with a for loop, then compare to str2, to accomplish subtraction I should create a 3rd string in which to store the output but I'm a little lost after that.
def filter_string(str1, str2):
str3 = str1
for character in str1:
if character in str2:
str3 = str1 - str2
return str3
This is what I've been playing with but I don't understand how I should proceed.
Just use str.translate()
:
In [4]: 'abcdefabcd'.translate(None, 'acd')
Out[4]: 'befb'
From the documentation:
string.translate(s, table[, deletechars])
Delete all characters from s
that are in deletechars
(if present), and then translate the characters using table
, which must be a 256-character string giving the translation for each character value, indexed by its ordinal. If table
is None, then only the character deletion step is performed.
If -- for educational purposes -- you'd like to code it up yourself, you could use something like:
''.join(c for c in str1 if c not in str2)
Use replace
:
def filter_string(str1, str2):
for c in str2:
str1 = str1.replace(c, '')
return str1
Or a simple list comprehension:
''.join(c for c in str1 if c not in str2)