Return a translation table suitable for passing to translate(), that will map each character in from into the character at the same position in to;from and to must have the same length.
Note
Don’t use strings derived from lowercase and uppercase as arguments; in some locales, these don’t have the same length. For case conversions, always usestr.lower() andstr.upper().
str. translate ( table [, deletechars ] )Return a copy of the string where all characters occurring in the optional argument deletechars are removed, and the remaining characters have been mapped through the given translation table, which must be a string of length 256.
You can use the maketrans() helper function in the string module to create a translation table. For string objects, set the table argument to None for translations that only delete characters:
>>> 'read this short text'.translate(None, 'aeiou') 'rd ths shrt txt'New in version 2.6: Support for a None table argument.
For Unicode objects, the translate() method does not accept the optionaldeletechars argument. Instead, it returns a copy of thes where all characters have been mapped through the given translation table which must be a mapping of Unicode ordinals to Unicode ordinals, Unicode strings or None. Unmapped characters are left untouched. Characters mapped to None are deleted. Note, a more flexible approach is to create a custom character mapping codec using the codecs module (see encodings.cp1251 for an example).