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Replacing characters within a list
I have to replace certain characters in each tuple in a list.I know how to do it with just a basic string.
import string
s = 'This:is:awesome'
ss = s.replace(':', '/')
print ss
However, how would I ...
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PHP equivalent of Python's `str.format` method?
Is there an equivalent of Python str.format in PHP?
In Python:
"my {} {} cat".format("red", "fat")
All I see I can do in PHP natively is by naming the entries and using str_replace:
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How do you replace a line of text in a text file (python) [duplicate]
i have a text file that looks like this:
unknown
unknown
etc.
How do you choose a specific line in the text file, delete that line than replace it with a specific string.
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Finding out Age in Months and Years given DOB in a CSV using python
I making several adjustments to an automatically gennerated CSV report. I am currently stuck on a part where I need to take a patient's DOB and convert that into an Age in Months and Years. There is ...
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replacing word with another word from the string in python
I have a string: "y, i agree with u."
And I have array dictionary [(word_will_replace, [word_will_be_replaced])]:
[('yes', ['y', 'ya', 'ye']), ('you', ['u', 'yu'])]
i want to replace 'y' with ...
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Removing a Ton of Leading Spaces and Newline Characters from a String
I have a Python string that is printing out the following string in the shell:
'\\n autonomy\\n . . sweeping\\n \\n '
How can I remove all of ...
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Replace characters in a string with whitespaces
I am writing a simple Python script that retrieves the latest tweet of any twitter user (in this case BBC) and uses the integrated text-to-speech system on Mac to read out the content of that ...
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Replacing substrings given a dictionary of strings-to-be-replaced as keys and replacements as values. Python
I have a dictionary with the strings to be replaced as keys and its replacement as values. Other than looking through the strings token by token, is there a better/faster way of doing the replacement?
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Fixing a CSV using Python
I am trying to clean up the formating on a CSV file in order to import it into a database, and I'm using the following to edit it:
f1 = open('visit_summary.csv', 'r')
f2 = open('clinics.csv', 'w')
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Python - how to replace 'p' in a number(4p5) with '.' (4p5->4.5)?
I have a program that prints out some data with 'p's in place of decimal points, and also some other information. I was trying to replace the 'p's with '.'s.
Example output by the program:
out_info ...
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Python replace string in file
i need something to replace a string in a file wich is placed in that mktemp folder. this file is named autounattend.cfg and contains a string named %PASSWORD this string need to be replaced with ...
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In Python 2.7, how can i replace 't' with 'top' and 'h' with 'hop' only when 'th' is not visible
I am new here and python as well but i want to give it a try!
I would like to replace 't' with 'top' and 'h' with 'hop' in a sentence , only when 'th' is not visible because 'th' will become 'thop'. ...
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Python alter lines for all files in folder, replacing existing files
I am trying to write a python script which goes through all files in a folder, and alters those lines containing a certain a href. I'm trying to get the script to add a .html extension to the href, ...
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Simultaneous .replace functionality
I have already converted user input of DNA code (A,T,G,C) into RNA code(A,U,G,C). This was fairly easy
RNA_Code=DNA_Code.replace('T','U')
Now the next thing I need to do is convert the RNA_Code ...
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Change all the occurrences of a particular value in a CSV file in Python
I have a CSV file that needs to be cleaned up. I wrote code with separate functions for each column to replace some value, say 'a' in column 1 with 'aaa', and ' ' (blank) in column 2 with '0'. Can we ...
