Multiple string replacement...

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 22-Sep-00 Simon Brunning wrote:
 >  I set up a ROT13 replacement set, which looks like:
 >  [['A', 'N'], ['B', 'O'], ['C', 'P'], ['D', 'Q'], ['E', 'R'], ['F', 'S'],
 >  ['G', 'T'], ['H', 'U'], ['I', 'V'], ['J', 'W'], ['K', 'X'], ['L', 'Y'],
 >  ['M', 'Z'], ['N', 'A'], ... and so on. The problem here is that after 'A'
 >  and been replaced by 'N', it gets replaced back again.

If translating single characters is what you really want to do, take a 
look at module string, and especially 

  string.maketrans(from,to)
  string.translate(s,table[,deletechars])

HTH

/Mikael

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