python - Deleting specific control characters(\n \r \t) from a string -

i have quite large amount of text include control charachters \n \t , \r. need replace them simple space--> " ". fastest way this? thanks

i think fastest way use str.translate():

import string s = "a\nb\rc\td" print s.translate(string.maketrans("\n\t\r", "   ")) 

prints

a b c d 

edit: once again turned discussion performance, here numbers. long strings, translate() way faster using regular expressions:

s = "a\nb\rc\td " * 1250000  regex = re.compile(r'[\n\r\t]') %timeit t = regex.sub(" ", s) # 1 loops, best of 3: 1.19 s per loop  table = string.maketrans("\n\t\r", "   ") %timeit s.translate(table) # 10 loops, best of 3: 29.3 ms per loop 

that's factor 40.