How to use string.replace() in python 3.x

Question

The string.replace() is deprecated on python 3.x. What is the new way of doing this?

Answer 1

replace() is a method of <class 'str'> in python3:

>>> 'hello, world'.replace(',', ':')
'hello: world'

Answer 2

Try this:

mystring = "This Is A String"
print(mystring.replace("String","Text"))

Answer 3

ss = s.replace(s.split()[1], +s.split()[1] + 'gy')
# should have no plus after the comma --i.e.,
ss = s.replace(s.split()[1], s.split()[1] + 'gy')

Answer 4

Simple Replace:         .replace(old, new, count) .

text = "Apples taste Good."
print(text.replace('Apples', 'Bananas'))          # use .replace() on a variable
Bananas taste Good.          <---- Output

print("Have a Bad Day!".replace("Bad","Good"))    # Use .replace() on a string
Have a Good Day!             <----- Output

print("Mom is happy!".replace("Mom","Dad").replace("happy","angry"))  #Use many times
Dad is angry!                <----- Output

Answer 5

The replace() method in python 3 is used simply by:

a = "This is the island of istanbul"
print (a.replace("is" , "was" , 3))

#3 is the maximum replacement that can be done in the string#

>>> Thwas was the wasland of istanbul

# Last substring 'is' in istanbul is not replaced by was because maximum of 3 has already been reached

Answer 6

You can use str.replace() as a chain of str.replace(). Think you have a string like 'Testing PRI/Sec (#434242332;PP:432:133423846,335)' and you want to replace all the '#',':',';','/' sign with '-'. You can replace it either this way(normal way),

>>> str = 'Testing PRI/Sec (#434242332;PP:432:133423846,335)'
>>> str = str.replace('#', '-')
>>> str = str.replace(':', '-')
>>> str = str.replace(';', '-')
>>> str = str.replace('/', '-')
>>> str
'Testing PRI-Sec (-434242332-PP-432-133423846,335)'

or this way(chain of str.replace())

>>> str = 'Testing PRI/Sec (#434242332;PP:432:133423846,335)'.replace('#', '-').replace(':', '-').replace(';', '-').replace('/', '-')
>>> str
'Testing PRI-Sec (-434242332-PP-432-133423846,335)'