"Norman Khine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> name = title.lower().replace('/', '_').replace('?',
> '_').replace('.', '')
> return '_'.join(name.split())
>
> Is there a way to have just one replace and so that:
Check out the string.maketrans() function and
the translate method.
Basically you do something like:
table = string.maketrans('/?_','___')
title = title.translate(table)
Now I'm not sure how it will react to the translation mapping
all three chars to the same result char, but it should work...
HTH,
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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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