Remove a character in string and the 3 characters after that, python

Question

Remove all '#' and the three characters after a '#', a '#' after the first '#' is treated as a regular character.

I tried to do it as a list but forgot that strings do not work the same as lists.

for i in phrase:
 if '#' in i:

Answer 1

You can do this with the simple string.split method built into python.

Example:

for i in phrase.split():
  if i == '#':
    # do whatever