PHP's str_replace ?

[Matthias Huening]

Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan (10.09.2008 15:50):
> In PHP, if I do
> str_replace(array('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'), '-', $str)
> it'll replace all vowels with a hyphen in string $str.
> 
> Is there some equivalent in Python ?

What about something like this:

import re
new_str = re.sub('([aeiou])-', r'\1', str)


Matthias