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Re: My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions

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Date 2013-04-12 02:09 +1000
Subject Re: My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Lamb <lambandme@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! It worked! But why didn't I see functions : translate(), maketrans(), rstrip(), etc. listed when I called print(dir(string))?

Because they're not in the string module any more - they're methods on
str (and bytes). Try checking out dir(str) - str being the class of
your basic Unicode string now, rather than being the type of a string
of bytes - and you should see them all.

ChrisA

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My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions Lamb <lambandme@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 08:30 -0700
  Re: My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 01:45 +1000
    Re: My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions Lamb <lambandme@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 09:05 -0700
      Re: My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 02:09 +1000
    Re: My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions Lamb <lambandme@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 09:05 -0700
  Re: My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-11 17:56 +0100
    Re: My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-12 00:17 +0000

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