On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 3:48 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> str.replace( ("aaa", "a", "b"), ("b", "bbb", "a")
>>
>> and all sort of other complications!
>>
>>
> 2) Check from the longest to the shortest.
>
> If you're going to pick choice 2, does it have to be 2 tuples/lists? Why
> not a dict instead?
>
then we have a string.translate() that accepts a table of string
replacements, rather than individual character replacements -- maybe a good
idea!
-CHB
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