Delete a character from pythons string

Question

How do you delete a given letter from a python string?

Answer 1

new_word = old_word.replace("c", "")

Use replace() as shown

Answer 2

If you want to remove the 'J' wherever it appears:

newstr = oldstr.replace("J", "")

For central character removal :

midlen = len(oldstr)/2 newstr = oldstr[:midlen] + oldstr[midlen+1:]

Hope this helps you.