Python, remove all non-alphabet chars from string

Question

I am writing a python MapReduce word count program. Problem is that there are many non-alphabet chars strewn about in the data, I have found this post Stripping everything b

Answer 1

Try:

s = ''.join(filter(str.isalnum, s))

This will take every char from the string, keep only alphanumeric ones and build a string back from them.