String Handling

[Skip Montanaro]

    Simon> Can anyone give me the Python line/command to change all spaces
    Simon> in a string to +s?

Taking a slightly different tack than the other respondents, I'll presume
with no real evidence that you are quoting strings for use in URLs (that's
the only other place I have seen space-to-plus conversions).

*If* that's the case, you probably want to use urllib.quote_plus:

    >>> import urllib
    >>> urllib.quote_plus("Can't we *ever* agree on anything?")
    'Can%27t+we+%2aever%2a+agree+on+anything%3f'

If you can tolerate (or want) %20 instead of +, use urllib.quote:

    >>> urllib.quote("Can't we *ever* agree on anything?")
    'Can%27t%20we%20%2aever%2a%20agree%20on%20anything%3f'

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