Hi Mechele,
In string s u want to replace string "b" or "c" to -> "x" import re s ="a1b2c3" re.sub("[bc]","x",s) Sincerely josef Josef -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michele Petrazzo Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 4:03 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: string replace Hi, a lot of times I need to replace more than one char into a string, so I have to do something like value = "test" chars = "e" for c in chars: value = value.replace(c, "") A solution could be that "replace" accept a tuple/list of chars, like that was add into the new 2.5 for startswith. I don't know, but can be this feature included into a future python release? Thanks, Michele -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list