Better way to replace/remove characters in a list of strings.
George Sakkis
george.sakkis at gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 07:02:32 EDT 2006
Philipp Pagel wrote:
> Chris Brat <chrisBrat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a better way to replace/remove characters (specifically ' and
> > " characters in my case, but it could be anything) in strings in a
> > list, than this example to replace 'a' with 'b':
>
> x = map(lambda foo: foo.replace('a', 'b'), x)
Or more pythonically:
x = [s.replace('a', 'b') for s in x]
George
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