[Python-ideas] in str.replace(old, new), allow 'old' to accept a tuple

[Ben Finney]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang at gmail.com>
writes:

> >>> 'foo bar baz'.replace(('foo', 'bar'), 'baz')
> baz baz baz

How about:

    'foo bar baz'.replace(('foo', 'bar'), 'foobar')

You can't replace multiple matches “at the same time”, as you're
implying. The order of replacements is important, since it will affect
the outcome in many cases.

Do you think it's important to allow a set as the first argument to
str.replace()?

    search_strings = set(['foo', 'bar'])
    'foo bar baz'.replace(search_strings, 'foobar')

I think that would be at least as desirable as your proposal; but what
would be the order of replacements?

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Ben Finney