Re: string.replace doesn't removes ":"

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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

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string.replace doesn't removes ":" Joshua Robinson <shooki.robinson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-09 06:04 -0500
  Re: string.replace doesn't removes ":" Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2013-02-10 11:36 +0100
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  Re: string.replace doesn't removes ":" Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-12 20:44 -0800
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