String Replacement

John Hunter jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu
Sun Aug 3 14:45:26 EDT 2003


>>>>> "Tyler" == Tyler Eaves <tyler at scalegen.com> writes:


    Tyler> str = str.replace("\n", "<br>")

'str' is a built in function

>>> str(1)
'1'

And you will be overriding this functionality if you name something
'str'.  Perfectly legal, but might lead to some hard to diagnose bugs
in the future.

John Hunter






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