Removing timestamps from transcriptions

[metulburr]

Is it simply a matter of a search and replace ? Like search for either numeric or a colon, and replace with a null ? Wanted to use python to parse through a number of files; there are about 20 of these .txt files and some are 130K. So doing it manually is out of the question.

Possibly search for a space and numeric to indicate the start of where it needs replacing, and more often than not we have .

You could do it with regex and then just replace all double spaces with a single space. OR you can make a function to find all colons, and then remove 3 characters before, and 2 characters afterwords.