How to delete the numbers between two delimiters?

Question

I have some garbage data:

trueText = ' 23  Wolkenvelden en   lokaal wat regen. In  de ochtend op  steeds meer  plaatsen droog en  24 zon. In de avond   kans op onweer,met   name in Zeeland.   22      20 23   = max. temp.  vandaag   '

I want to delete the numbers that are between the  characters because this is useless. Sometimes there can be a number in the text so that's why I only want to delete those between the  characters.

I have tried some things myself:

trueText = re.sub('[^]+', ' ', trueText)

This deletes everything between the  characters. I think I have to use the \d sequence but I can't seem to get the syntax right.

Answer 1

You can remove all digits in the match value using

trueText = re.sub('[^]+', lambda x: ''.join(c for c in x.group() if not c.isdigit()), trueText)

See the Python demo:

import re
trueText = ' 23  Wolkenvelden en   lokaal wat regen. In  de ochtend op  steeds meer  plaatsen droog en  24 zon. In de avond   kans op onweer,met   name in Zeeland.   22      20 23   = max. temp.  vandaag   '
print(re.sub('[^]+', lambda x: ''.join(c for c in x.group() if not c.isdigit()), trueText))

Output:

   Wolkenvelden en   lokaal wat regen. In  de ochtend op  steeds meer  plaatsen droog en   zon. In de avond   kans op onweer,met   name in Zeeland.             = max. temp.  vandaag   