How to delete all instances of a character in a string in python?

Question

How do I delete all the instances of a character in this string? Here is my code:

def findreplace(char, string):
    place = string.index(char)
    string[pl         


        

Answer 1

I suggest split (not saying that the other answers are invalid, this is just another way to do it):

def findreplace(char, string):
   return ''.join(string.split(char))

Splitting by a character removes all the characters and turns it into a list. Then we join the list with the join function. You can see the ipython console test below

In[112]: findreplace('i', 'it is icy')
Out[112]: 't s cy'

And the speed...

In[114]: timeit("findreplace('it is icy','i')", "from __main__ import findreplace")
Out[114]: 0.9927914671134204

Not as fast as replace or translate, but ok.