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 string.

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 built in replace …

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 characters …

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

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.

Mar 23, 2014 · 0 You can also use .replace() directly by passing the pattern as the regex= argument and the replacement value as value= argument.

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: