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

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Mar 19, 2019 · If you're more interested in funcionality over time optimization, do not use replace. Also use translate if you don't know if the set of characters to be replaced overlaps the set of …

On the other hand, replace() is implemented in Python and uses a loop over the dictionary. So if the dictionary is large, replace can potentially be thousands of times slower than map + fillna.

11 The problem is that .replace(old, new) returns a copy of the string in which the occurrences of old have been replaced with new. Instead, you can swap the character at index i using:

55 str.replace is the wrong function for what you want to do (apart from it being used incorrectly). You want to replace any character of a set with a space, not the whole set with a single space …

Basically, I'm asking the user to input a string of text into the console, but the string is very long and includes many line breaks. How would I take the user's string and delete all line breaks to