My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions

[Lamb]

Thanks! It worked! But why didn't I see functions : translate(), maketrans(), rstrip(), etc. listed when I called print(dir(string))?

On Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:45:05 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> > import string
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> > s = "string. With. Punctuation?"
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> > out = s.translate(string.maketrans("",""), string.punctuation)
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> Try this instead:
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> import string
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> s = "string. With. Punctuation?"
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> out = s.translate(str.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation))
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> Due to the changes in string handling (s is a Unicode string in Python
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> 3, not a string of bytes), str.translate() got changed. Check out
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> help(str.maketrans) and help(str.translate) in interactive Python for
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> more details.
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> ChrisA