Remove string with brackets in List (Python)

Question

I have a list

thislist = ["apple (red)", "banana (yellow)", "cherry (red)"]

How do I remove/strip off the brackets in each item of the list?

Desire Output:

thislist = ["apple red", "banana yellow", "cherry red"]

Thank you

Answer 1

Use this code:

newlist = []
for nn in thislist:
    newlist.append(nn.replace('(','').replace(')',''))
newlist

Output:

['apple red', 'banana yellow', 'cherry red']

Answer 2

You can use translate()

>>> thislist = ["apple (red)", "banana (yellow)", "cherry (red)"]
>>> 
>>> bad_char_dict = {"(": "", ")": ""}
>>> table = str.maketrans(bad_char_dict)
>>> 
>>> new_list = []
>>> for item in thislist:
...     new_list.append(item.translate(table))
>>> 
>>> new_list
['apple red', 'banana yellow', 'cherry red']