Mass string replace in python?

Question

Say I have a string that looks like this:

str = \"The &yquick &cbrown &bfox &Yjumps over the &ulazy dog\"

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Answer 1

Not sure about the speed of this solution either, but you could just loop through your dictionary and repeatedly call the built-in

str.replace(old, new)

This might perform decently well if the original string isn't too long, but it would obviously suffer as the string got longer.