> 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?
Well, another way of doing it would be >>> values = "this is a test" >>> chars = "aeiou" >>> "".join([c for c in values if c not in chars]) 'ths s tst' If your either your chars is a large set or you're performing this repeatedly with the same set of chars, you might want the speed of membership-testing that one would get from a true set: >>> charset = set(chars) # do this once for the set >>> # do the following as many times as you like in loops, etc. >>> "".join([c for c in values if c not in charset]) 'ths s tst' HTH, -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
