title: How can I remove special characters from a list of elements in python?
body: <p>I have a list of elements containing special characters.  I want to convert the list to only alphanumeric characters.  No special characters.
  my_list = [&quot;on@3&quot;, &quot;two#&quot;, &quot;thre%e&quot;]</p>
  <p>my expected output is,</p>
  <pre><code>out_list = [&quot;one&quot;,&quot;two&quot;,&quot;three&quot;]
  </code></pre>
  <p>I cannot simply apply <code>strip()</code> to these items, please help.</p>