How can I remove multiple characters in a list?

Question

Having such list:

x = [\'+5556\', \'-1539\', \'-99\',\'+1500\']

How can I remove + and - in nice way?

This works but I\'m looking f

Answer 1

Use str.strip() or preferably str.lstrip():

In [1]: x = ['+5556', '-1539', '-99','+1500']

using list comprehension:

In [3]: [y.strip('+-') for y in x]
Out[3]: ['5556', '1539', '99', '1500']

using map():

In [2]: map(lambda x:x.strip('+-'),x)
Out[2]: ['5556', '1539', '99', '1500']

Edit:

Use the str.translate() based solution by @Duncan if you've + and - in between the numbers as well.