[Tutor] Messy - Very Messy string manipulation.

[Mark Lawrence]

On 28/10/2015 18:06, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 28/10/15 17:35, Peter Otten wrote:
>> Alan Gauld wrote:
>>
>>> On 28/10/15 16:37, Peter Otten wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>> 'The cow moos louder than the frog'.translate(str.maketrans("", "",
>>>> "aeiouAEIOU"))
>>>> 'Th cw ms ldr thn th frg'
>>>
>>> Even easier, forget the maketrans stuff and just use
>>>
>>> 'The cow moos louder than the frog'.translate(None,'aeiouAEIOU')
>>
>> This only works for byte strings, not unicode.
>
> Aha, I tried it in Python 2.7 which worked, but I didn't
> think about v3...
>

Seems like as good a place as any to point out that in Python 3 all of 
the following also exist.

static bytes.maketrans(from, to)
bytes.translate(table[, delete])

static bytearray.maketrans(from, to)
bytearray.translate(table[, delete])

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Mark Lawrence