8.8 Replacing Substrings

  • A common text manipulation is to locate a substring and replace its value
  • replace searches a string for the substring in its first argument and replaces each occurrence with the substring in its second argument
  • Can receive an optional third argument specifying the maximum number of replacements
In [3]:
values = '1\t2\t3\t4\t5'
values
Out[3]:
'1\t2\t3\t4\t5'
In [2]:
values.replace('\t', ',')
Out[2]:
'1,2,3,4,5'

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