Is str.replace(..).replace(..) ad nauseam a standard idiom in Python?

Question

For instance, say I wanted a function to escape a string for use in HTML (as in Django\'s escape filter):

    def escape(string):
        \"\"\"
        Retu         


        

Answer 1

I prefer something clean like:

substitutions = [
    ('<', '<'),
    ('>', '>'),
    ...]

for search, replacement in substitutions:
    string = string.replace(search, replacement)