ReXX Style translate() function for strings ?

[Greg Ewing]

Stephen Ferg wrote:
> 
>         input = ""
>         for n in xrange(256): # produce numbers 0 through 255
>             input = input + chr(n)

or, for a faster way of doing that,

   input = ''.join(range(256))

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