string.replace doesn't removes ":"
vduncan80 at gmail.com
vduncan80 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 10:14:48 EST 2013
On Sunday, February 10, 2013 4:36:53 AM UTC-6, Johannes Bauer wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> --
>
> >> Wo hattest Du das Beben nochmal GENAU vorhergesagt?
>
> > Zumindest nicht öffentlich!
>
> Ah, der neueste und bis heute genialste Streich unsere großen
>
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>
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Hello Joshua:
Hopefully you have worked out the issue. Johannes is right on the money using 'replace' as shown below.
x = "this is a simple : text: that has colon
s = x.replace(":", "")
print(s)
'this is a simple text that has colon'
Sincerely,
VDuncan
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