How come string.maketrans does not work in Python 3.1?

Question

I\'m a Python newbie.

How come this doesn\'t work in Python 3.1?

from string import maketrans   # Required to call maketrans function.

intab = \"aei         


        

Answer 1

Here's my final Python (3.1) code posted here just for reference:

"this is string example....wow!!!".translate(bytes.maketrans(b"aeiou",b"12345"))

Short and sweet, love it.