The first example can be made slightly more friendly with str.maketrans:
character_map = str.maketrans({ '\n': ' ', '\t': ' ', '\r': None, })
There's also a shorter form, though it helps to read help(str.maketrans) to see why it works:
help(str.maketrans)
character_map = str.maketrans("\n\t", " ", "\r")
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The first example can be made slightly more friendly with str.maketrans:
There's also a shorter form, though it helps to read
help(str.maketrans)to see why it works: