How can I remove all words that end in ":" from a string in Python?

Question

I'm wondering how to remove a dynamic word from a string within Python.

It will always have a ":" at the end of the word, and sometimes there's more than one within the string. I'd like to remove all occurrences of "word:".

Thanks! :-)

Answer 1

Use regular expressions.

import re
blah = "word word: monty py: thon"
answer = re.sub(r'\w+:\s?','',blah)
print answer

This will also pull out a single optional space after the colon.