@JonB said:
For doing 1:1 character replacements, maketrans plus translate makes for clean code. You list all the characters you are replacing in one string, all the replacements in the second, and all the characters to delete in the third argument to maketrans.
Damn, I never knew about this. Now I can finally replace my for c in (...): s = s.replace(c, "") loops. My code may finally look acceptable.