Feb 26, 2012 · Official doc for str.replace of Python 3 official doc: Python 3's str.replace str.replace (old, new [, count]) Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the …

Apr 19, 2009 · A list of string replacements in Python Asked 16 years, 10 months ago Modified 5 years, 7 months ago Viewed 85k times

I am using a line replace function posted previously to replace the line which uses Python's string.replace(pattern, sub). The regular expression that I'm using works for instance in vim but …

Careful: Python dictionaries don't have a reliable order for iteration. This solution only solves your problem if: order of replacements is irrelevant it's ok for a replacement to change the results of …

This is what I ended up doing to replace, but I get the "A value is trying to be set on a copy of a slice from a DataFrame." warning. The resulting dataframe is exactly what I want, but the warning is off …

Jul 17, 2014 · 4 Because strings are immutable, str.replace(x, " ") does not modify the string object referenced by str in any way. Instead, it returns a copy of this object were x is replaced with " ". In …

Apr 14, 2011 · For Python 2.5, 2.6, should I be using string.replace or re.sub for basic text replacements? In PHP, this was explicitly stated but I can't find a similar note for Python.

17 replace method of string objects does not accept regular expressions but only fixed strings (see documentation: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.replace). You have to use re module:

Apr 6, 2012 · I used regular expressions to get a string from a web page and part of the string may contain something I would like to replace with something else. How would it be possible to do this? …

Format is really powerful. You can use it to decide how wide to make a field, how to write numbers, and other formatting of the sort, depending on what you write inside the brackets. You could also use the …