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Subject: Re: Curious to see alternate approach on a search/replace via regex
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:56:19 +0200
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On 07.02.13 11:49, Peter Otten wrote:
> ILLEGAL = "-:./?&="
> try:
>      TRANS = string.maketrans(ILLEGAL, "_" * len(ILLEGAL))
> except AttributeError:
>      # python 3
>      TRANS = dict.fromkeys(map(ord, ILLEGAL), "_")

str.maketrans()