Feb 26, 2012 · The string.replace() is deprecated on python 3.x. What is the new way of doing this?

The curly-bracket style is only supported in Python 2.6 or later. It is the most flexible style (providing a rich set of control characters and allowing objects to implement custom formatters).

After some benchmarking on using replace several times vs regex replacement on a string of increasing length by power of 2 with 100 replacements added, it seems that on my computer this method is the …

Aug 4, 2009 · Strings are immutable in Python, which means you cannot change the existing string. But if you want to change any character in it, you could create a new string out it as follows,

Dec 21, 2022 · A BIG part of the problem is that the string replace() method returns a copy of string with occurrences replaced -- it doesn't do it in-place.

134 For anyone else arriving here from Google search on how to do a string replacement on all columns (for example, if one has multiple columns like the OP's 'range' column): Pandas has a built in replace …

104 If you'd like to replace the strings in the same file, you probably have to read its contents into a local variable, close it, and re-open it for writing: I am using the with statement in this example, which …

Mar 19, 2019 · Replacing two characters I timed all the methods in the current answers along with one extra. With an input string of abc&def#ghi and replacing & -> \& and # -> \#, the fastest way was to …

118 In order to replace text using regular expression use the re.sub function: sub (pattern, repl, string [, count, flags]) It will replace non-everlaping instances of pattern by the text passed as string.

543 You don't need regular expressions. Python has a built-in string method that does what you need: