[python] manipulating items in a list

[moudy]

hello every one
I'm sort of stuck in this, and I'm not sure how to proceed, although it seems easy,

This is a sample list of emails in python:

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['alain_9999@hotmail.com;', '(a.a_v@hotmail.com);', 'arabesk100@hotmail.com', '(arabesk100@hotmail.com);', 'asfoora-al_hazeena@hotmail.com;', 'atter797@hotmail.com;', 'banooota_shj@hotmail.com;', 'bant2011@hotmail.com;', 'basbosa88@hotmail.com;', 'black_girl_911@hotmail.com;', 'bn_shames_1000@hotmail.com;', 'gardenia_low@hotmail.com;', '(king_almanaseer@hotmail.com);', 'nelldonnie7817@hotmail.com;']

I'm not finding a convenient way to remove the punctuation from the items in the list. I want to remove the semicolons and brackets form the items.
i had in mid to this method:

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for i in list:
         if i.find(';') > -1:
                  i.replace(';'.'')

any ideas ?
I hope I made my self clear enough.

[moudy]

ok solved,
i used this:

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for item in list:
            item.strip(';()')

and it worked just fine

[Surely]

More functionally you can also do:

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map(lambda email: email.strip('();'), emails)

Where emails is the list of e-mails and the first argument to map() is an anonymous function.

[moudy]

Thanks a lot for the reply Surely.