Changing one character in a string

Question

What is the easiest way in Python to replace a character in a string?

For example:

text = \"abcdefg\";
text[1] = \"Z\";
           ^

Answer 1

I would like to add another way of changing a character in a string.

>>> text = '~~~~~~~~~~~'
>>> text = text[:1] + (text[1:].replace(text[0], '+', 1))
'~+~~~~~~~~~'

How faster it is when compared to turning the string into list and replacing the ith value then joining again?.

List approach

>>> timeit.timeit("text = '~~~~~~~~~~~'; s = list(text); s[1] = '+'; ''.join(s)", number=1000000)
0.8268570480013295

My solution

>>> timeit.timeit("text = '~~~~~~~~~~~'; text=text[:1] + (text[1:].replace(text[0], '+', 1))", number=1000000)
0.588400217000526