>>> table = str.maketrans({“(“:None, “)”:None})<br />

# credit to the Stack Overflow user in the source link<br /> >>> import re<br /> >>> x = “This is a sentence. (once a day) [twice a day]”<br /> >>> re.sub(“[\(\[].*?[\)\]]”, “”, x)<br /> ‘This is a sentence. ‘

>>> table = str.maketrans(dict.fromkeys(“()”))<br /> >>> string1 = ‘(this) (is) (a) (test)’<br /> >>> string1.translate(table)<br /> ‘this is a test’<br />