Thanks for everyone's feedback. Some interesting thoughts including Alan's
"classes should never be named for their data but for their function" feedback.
I'm going to have to noodle on that one. Good stuff!
Malcolm
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They same naming is one of the two biggest challenges when it comes to
software. Or one of three if you count the "off-by-one" joke :)
Anyways, I'm looking for help coming up for the proper name for a class that
collects the following type of telemetry data that we use for operational
analysis.
What is the Pythonic way to remove specific chars from a string? The
.translate( table[, deletechars]) method seems the most 'politically
correct' and also the most complicated.
My ideas:
1. For each char to be removed, do a .replace( char_to_delete, '' )
2. Do a .split( str_of_chars_to_delete )
Suggestions on the best way to extract delimited substrings strings from
a larger string?
Background: I have a long multi-line string with expressions delimited
with '<(' and ')>' markers. I would like to extract these substrings and
process them in a loop.
Because the left and right delimiters a
Any suggestions for how to normalize and compress whitespace in a
string?
By normalize I mean convert tabs and soft spaces (extended ascii code
160) to spaces.
By compress I mean replace all runs of 2 or more spaces (after the
normalization step) to a single space.
I know I can use regular expre
