PHP's str_replace ?

[Grzegorz Staniak]

On 10.09.2008, Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan <mail at anjanesh.net> wroted:

> In PHP, if I do
> str_replace(array('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'), '-', $str)
> it'll replace all vowels with a hyphen in string $str.
>
> Is there some equivalent in Python ?

The .translate() method of strings?

 >>> import string
 >>> mystr = "This is just a test"
 >>> transtable = string.maketrans("aeiouy","------")
 >>> mystr.translate(transtable)
 'Th-s -s j-st - t-st'

GS
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