ordinals, strings or ``None``. Unmapped characters are left untouched.
Characters mapped to ``None`` are deleted.
- A *map* for :meth:`translate` is usually best created by
- :meth:`str.maketrans`.
-
- You can use the :func:`maketrans` helper function in the :mod:`string` module to
- create a translation table. For string objects, set the *table* argument to
- ``None`` for translations that only delete characters:
+ You can use :meth:`str.maketrans` to create a translation table. For string
+ objects, set the *table* argument to ``None`` for translations that only
+ delete characters:
.. note::