trouble with replace

[Jason Nordwick]

>>> pats = ['abcdef', 'defgef', 'effwer']
>>> reps = ['highway', 'news', 'monitor']
>>> s = 'defgefabcdefyuuuu\n\n\n  effwerbyuuuterrfr'
>>> reduce(lambda x,y: x.replace(*y), zip(pats,reps), s)
'newshighwayyuuuu\n\n\n  monitorbyuuuterrfr'



f pemberton wrote:
> I have a string (xdata) and theres a newline after every 17 characters
> of the string. I was wondering how I can replace multiple substrings
> multiple times within a string? To put it another way, this is what i
> want to do.
> 
> Substring to find ("abcdef") replace it with ("highway")
> search again, substring to find ("defgef") replace it with
> ("news").Search again and find ("effwer") replace it with
> ("monitor").Example string to search under is '''defgefabcdefyuuuu
> 
> 
>   effwerbyuuuterrfr'''
> 
> I've tried using replace but its not working for me.
> xdata.replace('abcdef', 'highway')
> xdata.replace('defgef', 'news')
> xdata.replace('effwer', 'monitor')
> Basically I would want to get the output of   "newshighwayyuuuu
> 
> 
>        monitorbyuuuterrfr"
> 
> Thanks, any help would be appreciated.
>