[Python-ideas] string.replace should accept a list as a first argument

[Ryan Gonzalez]

import re

result = re.sub('undesirable|filthy', '', 'There are a lot of undesirable
people in this filthy world')
print(result) # There are a lot of people in this world


On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Emil Rosendahl Petersen <
emilrosendahlpetersen at outlook.com> wrote:

> I think string.replace should be changed accept a list as a first
> argument.
>
> That way, if I had this string:
>
> "There are a lot of undesirable people in this filthy world"
>
> Then I could do this, replace(['undesirable', 'filthy'], ''), in case
> that's what I wanted to do.
>
> Now, string.replace doesn't accept a list as its first argument, and
> complains about implicit conversion.
>
> Is there any great obstacle to just having the function loop over that
> list, calling itself in case we get a list argument instead of a str?
>
> Doesn't that seem like the more obvious behaviour? To me the results of
> running the above code should be unsurprising, if this change was
> implemented: "there are a lot of people in this world".
>
> / Emil Petersen
>
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Ryan
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