Re: Replacing large number of substrings

2005-09-04 Thread tiissa
Will McGugan wrote: Hi, Is there a simple way of replacing a large number of substrings in a string? I was hoping that str.replace could take a dictionary and use it to replace the occurrences of the keys with the dict values, but that doesnt seem to be the case. You can look at the

Re: Replacing large number of substrings

2005-09-04 Thread Robert Kern
Will McGugan wrote: Hi, Is there a simple way of replacing a large number of substrings in a string? I was hoping that str.replace could take a dictionary and use it to replace the occurrences of the keys with the dict values, but that doesnt seem to be the case. To clarify, something

Re: Replacing large number of substrings

2005-09-04 Thread Michael J. Fromberger
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Will McGugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a simple way of replacing a large number of substrings in a string? I was hoping that str.replace could take a dictionary and use it to replace the occurrences of the keys with the dict values, but that