Jared Nielsen wrote:
> I implemented eryksun's suggestion and used the replace() method.
> But, playing around with it, what I discovered is that it won't store the
> change.
> For example, when the input text is, "Ham and cheese or chicken and
> waffles":
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> text = raw_input("Enter text: ")
>
> print text.replace("and", "\nand").replace("or", "\nor")
>
> I get:
> Ham
> and cheese
> or chicken
> and waffles.
>
> But if I run the following:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> text = raw_input("Enter text: ")
>
> text.replace("and", "\nand")
> text.replace("or", "\nor")
>
> print text
>
> I get the text as it was entered.
> Is there a way to replace text in a string without splitting or
> partitioning?
The replace() method does not modify the original string, it returns a new
string with the appropriate replacements. With a line like
> text.replace("and", "\nand")
you throw away that new string. Change it to
text = text.replace("and", "\nand")
to keep it.
However, I doubt you will be satisfied with the result of your script for
long:
>>> print raw_input().replace("and", "and\n")
vandalizing androids wandering the wastelands
vand
alizing and
roids wand
ering the wasteland
s
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