On 2022-05-16 20:48:02 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2022 17:22:17 -0700 (PDT), "hongy...@gmail.com"
> <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
> >a=re.sub(r"'","",a)
>
> Explain what you believe this operation is doing, show us the input and
> the output.
>
> The best I can make out of that is that it is looking for single quote
> characters within whatever "a" is, and replacing them with nothing.
> Something much more understandable, without invoking a regular expression
> library (especially when neither the search nor the replacement terms are
> regular expressions) with simple string operations...
>
> stripped = "".join(quoted.split("'"))
Whether that's easier to understand it very much in the eye of the
beholder.
hp
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