Curious to see alternate approach on a search/replace via regex

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 07.02.13 11:49, Peter Otten wrote:
> ILLEGAL = "-:./?&="
> try:
>      TRANS = string.maketrans(ILLEGAL, "_" * len(ILLEGAL))
> except AttributeError:
>      # python 3
>      TRANS = dict.fromkeys(map(ord, ILLEGAL), "_")

str.maketrans()