In article <8404fac9-06c7-4555-93af-c78f5e01d...@j21g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
Booter <colo.av...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I am trying to replace a series of periods in a sting with backspaces
>that way I can easily parse information from a Windows command. the
>current statement I have for this is
>
>capture = re.sub('\.*', '\b', capture)
What's wrong with
capture = capture.replace('.', '\b')
That will be much faster.
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