[python] Python strip() multiple characters?

I want to remove any brackets from a string. Why doesn't this work properly?

>>> name = "Barack (of Washington)"
>>> name = name.strip("(){}<>")
>>> print name
Barack (of Washington

string.translate with table=None works fine.

>>> name = "Barack (of Washington)"
>>> name = name.translate(None, "(){}<>")
>>> print name
Barack of Washington

strip only strips characters from the very front and back of the string.

To delete a list of characters, you could use the string's translate method:

import string
name = "Barack (of Washington)"
table = string.maketrans( '', '', )
print name.translate(table,"(){}<>")
# Barack of Washington

Because that's not what strip() does. It removes leading and trailing characters that are present in the argument, but not those characters in the middle of the string.

You could do:

name= name.replace('(', '').replace(')', '').replace ...

or:

name= ''.join(c for c in name if c not in '(){}<>')

or maybe use a regex:

import re
name= re.sub('[(){}<>]', '', name)

Because strip() only strips trailing and leading characters, based on what you provided. I suggest:

>>> import re
>>> name = "Barack (of Washington)"
>>> name = re.sub('[\(\)\{\}<>]', '', name)
>>> print(name)
Barack of Washington

For example string s="(U+007c)"

To remove only the parentheses from s, try the below one:

import re
a=re.sub("\\(","",s)
b=re.sub("\\)","",a)
print(b)