Replacing instances of a character in a string

Question

This simple code that simply tries to replace semicolons (at i-specified postions) by colons does not work:

for i in range(0,len(line)):
     if (line[i]==\"         


        

Answer 1

You cannot simply assign value to a character in the string. Use this method to replace value of a particular character:

name = "India"
result=name .replace("d",'*')

Output: In*ia

Also, if you want to replace say * for all the occurrences of the first character except the first character, eg. string = babble output = ba**le

Code:

name = "babble"
front= name [0:1]
fromSecondCharacter = name [1:]
back=fromSecondCharacter.replace(front,'*')
return front+back