Remove extra characters in the string in Python

Question

I have couple of strings (each string is a set of words) which has special characters in them. I know using strip() function, we can remove all occurrences of only one specific character from any string. Now, I would like to remove set of special characters (include !@#%&*()[]{}/?<> ) etc.

What is the best way you can get these unwanted characters removed from the strings.

in-str = "@John, It's a fantastic #week-end%, How about () you"

out-str = "John, It's a fantastic week-end, How about you"

Answer 1

import string

s = "@John, It's a fantastic #week-end%, How about () you"
for c in "!@#%&*()[]{}/?<>":
    s = string.replace(s, c, "")

print s

prints "John, It's a fantastic week-end, How about you"