例子:
 
#!/bin/python/env
#site: www.jb200.com
#
 
s = "hello world! how are you? 0" 
# Short version  
print filter(lambda c: c.isalpha(), s) 
# Faster version for long ASCII strings:  
id_tab = "".join(map(chr, xrange(256)))  
tostrip = "".join(c for c in id_tab if c.isalpha())  
print s.translate(id_tab, tostrip) 
# Using regular expressions 正则表达式 
print re.sub("[^A-Za-z]", "", s)