对于只允许字符串中某些字符的相反要求，可以使用带有集补操作符[^ABCabc]的正则表达式。例如，要删除除ascii字母、数字和连字符以外的所有字符:

>>> import string
>>> import re
>>>
>>> phrase = '  There were "nine" (9) chick-peas in my pocket!!!      '
>>> allow = string.letters + string.digits + '-'
>>> re.sub('[^%s]' % allow, '', phrase)

'Therewerenine9chick-peasinmypocket'

来自python正则表达式文档:

不在范围内的字符可以通过互补来匹配 一组。如果集合的第一个字符是'^'，则所有字符 不在集合中的将被匹配。例如，[^5]将匹配 除'5'以外的任何字符，[^^]将匹配除 “^”。的第一个字符没有特殊意义 集。

line = line.translate(None, " ?.!/;:")

您还可以使用函数来替换不同类型的正则表达式或使用列表的其他模式。这样，您就可以混合正则表达式、字符类和真正基本的文本模式。当您需要替换大量元素(如HTML元素)时，它非常有用。

*注意:适用于Python 3.x

import re  # Regular expression library


def string_cleanup(x, notwanted):
    for item in notwanted:
        x = re.sub(item, '', x)
    return x

line = "<title>My example: <strong>A text %very% $clean!!</strong></title>"
print("Uncleaned: ", line)

# Get rid of html elements
html_elements = ["<title>", "</title>", "<strong>", "</strong>"]
line = string_cleanup(line, html_elements)
print("1st clean: ", line)

# Get rid of special characters
special_chars = ["[!@#$]", "%"]
line = string_cleanup(line, special_chars)
print("2nd clean: ", line)

在函数string_cleanup中，它以字符串x和未修饰的列表作为参数。对于元素或模式列表中的每一项，如果需要替代品，就会进行替换。

输出:

Uncleaned:  <title>My example: <strong>A text %very% $clean!!</strong></title>
1st clean:  My example: A text %very% $clean!!
2nd clean:  My example: A text very clean

>>> line = "abc#@!?efg12;:?"
>>> ''.join( c for c in line if  c not in '?:!/;' )
'abc#@efg12'

字符串方法replace不会修改原始字符串。它保留原始文件并返回修改后的副本。

你需要的是这样的:line = line.replace(char， ")

def replace_all(line, )for char in line:
    if char in " ?.!/;:":
        line = line.replace(char,'')
    return line

然而，每次删除一个字符都创建一个新的字符串是非常低效的。我推荐以下方法:

def replace_all(line, baddies, *):
    """
    The following is documentation on how to use the class,
    without reference to the implementation details:

    For implementation notes, please see comments begining with `#`
    in the source file.

    [*crickets chirp*]

    """

    is_bad = lambda ch, baddies=baddies: return ch in baddies
    filter_baddies = lambda ch, *, is_bad=is_bad: "" if is_bad(ch) else ch
    mahp = replace_all.map(filter_baddies, line)
    return replace_all.join('', join(mahp))

    # -------------------------------------------------
    # WHY `baddies=baddies`?!?
    #     `is_bad=is_bad`
    # -------------------------------------------------
    # Default arguments to a lambda function are evaluated
    # at the same time as when a lambda function is
    # **defined**.
    #
    # global variables of a lambda function
    # are evaluated when the lambda function is
    # **called**
    #
    # The following prints "as yellow as snow"
    #
    #     fleece_color = "white"
    #     little_lamb = lambda end: return "as " + fleece_color + end
    #
    #     # sometime later...
    #
    #     fleece_color = "yellow"
    #     print(little_lamb(" as snow"))
    # --------------------------------------------------
replace_all.map = map
replace_all.join = str.join

使用过滤器，你只需要一行

line = filter(lambda char: char not in " ?.!/;:", line)

这将字符串视为可迭代对象，如果lambda返回True，则检查每个字符:

> > >帮助(过滤器) 模块__builtin__中内置函数过滤器的帮助: 过滤器(…) filter(function或None, sequence) ->列表、元组或字符串 返回函数(item)为true的序列项。如果 函数为None，返回为true的项。If sequence是一个元组 或者字符串，返回相同的类型，否则返回一个列表。