Python String Handling

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 09:29 am, subhabangalore at gmail.com wrote:

> I have a string
> "Hello my name is Richard"
> 
> I have a list of words as,
> ['Hello/Hi','my','name','is','Richard/P']
> 
> I want to identify the match of 'Hello' and 'Richard'
> in list, and replace them with 'Hello/Hi" and 'Richard/P'
> respectively.
> 
> The result should look like,
> "Hello/Hi my name is Richard/P".

Looks like you want:


mystring = "Hello my name is Richard"
words = ['Hello/Hi', 'my', 'name', 'is', 'Richard/P']
result = " ".join(words)

assert result == "Hello/Hi my name is Richard/P"


and mystring is irrelevant.




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Steve
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