[Tutor] how to use replace() from a list

[Alan Gauld]

"Norman Khine" <norman at khine.net> wrote 

>    name = title.lower().replace('/', '_').replace('?',
> '_').replace('.', '')
>    return '_'.join(name.split())
> 
> Is there a way to have just one replace and so that:

Check out the string.maketrans() function and 
the translate method.

Basically you do something like:

table = string.maketrans('/?_','___')
title = title.translate(table)

Now I'm not sure how it will react to the translation mapping 
all three chars to the same result char, but it should work...

HTH,


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