One silly stripping func to complement the lib

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Interesting,
I should add that maketrans and translate can benefit form some examples in the documentation.
:)

str.translate is a bit faster...:

(scidev) dmitry@linux-mh4h:~/workspace/scipy> python -m timeit "'ajklbdkjsbc'.translate(str.maketrans('','','abc'))"
500000 loops, best of 5: 545 nsec per loop
(scidev) dmitry@linux-mh4h:~/workspace/scipy> python -m timeit "''.join([c for c in 'ajklbdkjsbc' if c not in 'abc'])"
500000 loops, best of 5: 572 nsec per loop