Hi,
I misunderstood how it worked, basically I’ve added this function:
def filterCommonCharacters(theString):
myNewString = theString.replace("\u2019", "'")
return myNewString
Which returns a new string replacing the common characters.
This can easily be extended to include other characters as and when they come
up by adding a line as so:
myNewString = theString.replace("\u2014", “]” #just an example
Which is what I was trying to achieve.
All the Best
Dave
> On 8 Jun 2022, at 11:17, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 at 19:13, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for this!
>>
>> So, is there a copy function/method that returns a MutableString like in
>> objective-C? I’ve solved this problems before in a number of languages like
>> Objective-C and AppleScript.
>>
>> Basically there is a set of common characters that need “normalizing” and I
>> have a method that replaces them in a string, so:
>>
>> myString = [myString normalizeCharacters];
>>
>> Would return a new string with all the “common” replacements applied.
>>
>> Since the following gives an error :
>>
>> myString = 'Hello'
>> myNewstring = myString.replace(myString,'e','a’)
>>
>> TypeError: 'str' object cannot be interpreted as an integer
>>
>> I can’t see of a way to do this in Python?
>>
>
> Not sure why you're passing the string as an argument as well as using
> it as the object you're calling a method on. All you should need to do
> is:
>
> myString.replace('e', 'a')
>
> ChrisA
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