[Python-ideas] in str.replace(old, new), allow 'old' to accept a tuple

[INADA Naoki]

Oh, I didn't know that. Thank you.
But what about unescape? str.translate accepts only one character key.


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Sven Marnach <sven at marnach.net> wrote:
> INADA Naoki schrieb am Thu, 12. Apr 2012, um 20:32:45 +0900:
>> >>> "<>&".replace( ('<', '<'), ('>', '>'), ('&', '&') )
>> '<>&'
>
> In current Python, it's
>
>    >>> t = str.maketrans({"<": "<", ">": ">", "&": "&"})
>    >>> "<>&".translate(t)
>    '<>&'
>
> Looks good enough for me.
>
> Cheers,
>    Sven
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