how to ignore special characters in python code example

Example 1: remove special characters from string python

>>> string = "Special $#! characters   spaces 888323"
>>> ''.join(e for e in string if e.isalnum())
'Specialcharactersspaces888323'

Example 2: remove special characters from string python

import re
re.sub('[^A-Za-z0-9]+', '', mystring)