Replace single character at given position
Bjoern Schliessmann
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Tue Sep 19 17:43:01 EDT 2006
Martin Kulas wrote:
> From programming languages like C I expect something like that:
>
>>>> idx = 1
>>>> s1 = "pxthon"
>>>> s1[idx] = 'y'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: object does not support item assignment
>
> It does not work :-(
Yes, Python strings are immutable.
> Is this a typical approach in Python to replace one character
> in a string? Are there better (faster) ways to achieve my goal?
Is speed *really* your primary goal? :)
You could also convert the string to a list, do the changes, and
convert back.
Regards,
Björn
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