Hello! How do I replace a single character in a string at a given position?
>From programming languages like C I expect something like that: >>> idx = 1 >>> s1 = "pxthon" >>> s1[idx] = 'y' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: object does not support item assignment It does not work :-( My second attempt succeeds: >>> s1 = s1[0:idx] + 'y' + s1[idx+1:] >>> s1 'python' Is this a typical approach in Python to replace one character in a string? Are there better (faster) ways to achieve my goal? I have looked through the methods of type ``string'' but I have not found any appropriate method or function. Thanks in advance, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
