Answers for "python remove word from string with regex"

strip characters from string python regex

syntax
re.sub(pattern, repl, string, max=0)
#!/usr/bin/python
import re

phone = "2004-959-559 # This is Phone Number"

# Delete Python-style comments
num = re.sub(r'#.*$', "", phone)
print "Phone Num : ", num
#output Phone Num :  2004-959-559

# Remove anything other than digits
num = re.sub(r'D', "", phone)    
print "Phone Num : ", num
#output Phone Num :  2004959559

python remove articles from string regex

# credit to the Stack Overflow user in the source link

re.sub('(s+)(a|an|and|the)(s+)', '13', text) # leaves the residual whitespace

re.sub('s+(a|an|and|the)(s+)', '2', text) # removes the whitespace