string.replace doesn't removes ":"
Johannes Bauer
dfnsonfsduifb at gmx.de
Sun Feb 10 05:36:53 EST 2013
On 09.02.2013 12:04, Joshua Robinson wrote:
> Hi *Monte-Pythons*,
>
> x = "this is a simple : text: that has colon"
> s = x.replace(string.punctuation, ""); OR
> s = x.replace(string.punctuation, "");
> print x # 'this is a simple : text: that has colon'
> # The colon is still in the text !!!!
>
> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong ?
The latter. str.replace() only replaces complete substrings, not single
character occurences of the given pattern. That is
"foo".replace("foo", "bar") == "bar"
"foofoo".replace("foo", "bar") == "barbar"
"foofoo".replace("fo", "bar") == "barobaro"
"foofoo".replace("abcdef", "bar") == "foofoo"
Regards,
Johannes
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