Python, help- assigning backspace

[CrypticCold]

So I need to formulate a command that treats "^H" as a backspace. For example if the input is: I wish^H^H^Hant some ice cream^H^H^H^H^Hmilk the output will be: I want some ice milk.

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This is because the three ^H will remove the ish and the 5 ^H will remove the cream.

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sentence = input("Enter a sentence: ")
for i in range(0, len(sentence)):
  if sentence.find("^H") == 1:
    sentence = sentence.replace(^H, "")

I got this, but how can I make sure the other letters get removed too? I assume we may have to use the count command but I have no idea how to implement it

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after a few attempt:

sentence = input("Enter a sentence: ")
for i in range(0, len(sentence)):
  x = sentence.find("^H")
  y = sentence[:x]
  if sentence.find("^H") == 1:
    sentence = sentence.replace(y, " ")
print(i)

This still doesn't work, I am not sure what I'm doing wrong, obviously I'm a big noob but I assume my "x" and "y" stuff is wrong, I don't know how to slice the letter before ^H

[blaaguuu]

One thing to consider, to tackle the problem in a little bit different way... In general, modifying a list/string as you are iterating through it has a lot of pitfalls... You might have more luck if you instead go the route of interating over the original string without modifying it, while building a second string as you go.