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

string.translate() will only work on byte-string objects not unicode. I would use re.sub:

>>> import re
>>> x = ['+5556', '-1539', '-99','+1500', '45+34-12+']
>>> x = [re.sub('[+-]', '', item) for item in x]
>>> x
['5556', '1539', '99', '1500', '453412']