project3.py

# Regular expression version for strip() function

# If no arguments passed to strip() then remove whitespaces from beginning and end.

# Otherwise characters specified as second argument in strip() will be removed from the string

import re

string_in = raw_input("Enter the string")

char_rem  = raw_input("Enter the character")

def regex_strip(string_in,char_rem):

	a = re.compile(r'[%s]'%(char_rem))
     
    # sub(pattern,replace,string,max=0)
    
	return a.sub('',string_in)

print (regex_strip(string_in,char_rem))