On Sunday, February 10, 2013 4:36:53 AM UTC-6, Johannes Bauer wrote: > On 09.02.2013 12:04, Joshua Robinson wrote: > > > Hi *Monte-Pythons*, > > > > > > x = "this is a simple : text: that has colon" > > > s = x.replace(string.punctuation, ""); OR > > > s = x.replace(string.punctuation, ""); > > > print x # 'this is a simple : text: that has colon' > > > # The colon is still in the text !!!! > > > > > > Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong ? > > > > The latter. str.replace() only replaces complete substrings, not single > > character occurences of the given pattern. That is > > > > "foo".replace("foo", "bar") == "bar" > > "foofoo".replace("foo", "bar") == "barbar" > > "foofoo".replace("fo", "bar") == "barobaro" > > "foofoo".replace("abcdef", "bar") == "foofoo" > > > > Regards, > > Johannes > > > > -- > > >> Wo hattest Du das Beben nochmal GENAU vorhergesagt? > > > Zumindest nicht öffentlich! > > Ah, der neueste und bis heute genialste Streich unsere großen > > Kosmologen: Die Geheim-Vorhersage. > > - Karl Kaos über Rüdiger Thomas in dsa <hidbv3$om2$1...@speranza.aioe.org>
Hello Joshua: Hopefully you have worked out the issue. Johannes is right on the money using 'replace' as shown below. x = "this is a simple : text: that has colon s = x.replace(":", "") print(s) 'this is a simple text that has colon' Sincerely, VDuncan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list