Remove specific characters from a string in Python

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00:30 Accepted answer (Score 758)
03:46 Answer 2 (Score 329)
04:11 Answer 3 (Score 62)
04:22 Answer 4 (Score 60)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3939361/remove-specific-characters-from-a-string-in-python

Accepted answer links:
[str.translate]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.translate
[re.sub]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#re.sub
[comment]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3939361/remove-specific-characters-from-a-string-in-pytho #comment-4205256
[documentation for ]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.translate
[ord]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#ord
[dict.fromkeys]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#dict.fromkeys
[map]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#map
[another answer puts it]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23175809/typeerror-translate-takes-one-argument-2-given-python
[Joseph Lee]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47030484/2932052
[str.maketrans]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.maketrans
[string.maketrans]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#string.maketrans

Answer 4 links:
[regular expressions]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

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