Please write a function that replaces all characters that the user provides by empty spaces.

The function is:

• Is called clean_text_general();
• Has one positional parameter text;
• Has one keyword parameter chars_to_remove, which is a set (set the default to {'\n', ',', '.', '"'});
• Returns a string, e.g., the cleaned text

When the user provides a different value to chars_to_remove, e.g., {'a'}, then only those characters should be replaced by empty spaces in the text.

Here is my code so far:

def clean_text_general(text, chars_to_remove=text.replace(',', '').replace('.', '').replace('\n', '').replace('"', '')):
    text = text(chars_to_remove(text))
    print(text)

clean_text(a_story,chars_to_remove=text.replace(',', '').replace('.', '').replace('\n', '').replace('"', ''))

The input can be any string.

CodePudding user response：

Here is a possible solution:

def clean_text_general(text, chars_to_remove={'\n', ',', '.', '"'}):
    return text.translate(text.maketrans({k: '' for k in chars_to_remove}))

Example:

>>> clean_text_general('hello, world.\n')
'hello world'
>>> clean_text_general('hello, world.\n', chars_to_remove={'\n', ','})
'hello world.'

If you don't feel comfortable using str.translate and str.maketrans then you can use this one (it's less efficient):

def clean_text_general(text, chars_to_remove={'\n', ',', '.', '"'}):
    for c in chars_to_remove:
        text = text.replace(c, '')
    return text

CodePudding user response：

You could utilise the maketrans and translate string functions like this:

import string

def clean_text_general(s):
    return s.translate(s.maketrans({k: ' ' for k in string.punctuation}))

print(clean_text_general('a,b.c'))

Output:

a b c