Removing characters from a list in python function

I am trying to learn functions in python, I come across a dead end for below problem where I have to write a function to take a list of strings as input, remove special characters and return a list with clean strings.

Code looks as below:

def cleanChar(a):  a=[]  b=[',','?','#','@','$','%','^','&','*','/']  out_list=[]    for x in a:      for y in b:          if y in x:              x=x.replace(y,'')              out_list.append  return out_list      testq = ['#mahesh','%Po*hsi$','Iy&gdj']    test3=cleanChar(testq)  print(test3)  

I get the out put as an empty list. What am I doing wrong here or what should have been my approach? Thanks in advance for the help.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67293204/removing-characters-from-a-list-in-python-function April 28, 2021 at 11:07AM