Replace single character at given position

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Martin Kulas wrote:

> From programming languages like C I expect something like that:
> 
>>>> idx = 1
>>>> s1 = "pxthon"
>>>> s1[idx] = 'y'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: object does not support item assignment
> 
> It does not work :-(

Yes, Python strings are immutable.
 
> Is this a typical approach in Python to replace one character
> in a string? Are there better (faster) ways to achieve my goal?

Is speed *really* your primary goal? :)

You could also convert the string to a list, do the changes, and
convert back.

Regards,


Björn

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