Norman Khine wrote:
>
> Hi I have this class:
>
> def title_to_name(title):
> title = title.encode('ascii', 'replace')
> name = title.lower().replace('/', '_').replace('?',
> '_').replace('.', '')
> return '_'.join(name.split())
>
> Is there a way to have just one replace and so that:
>
> replace('/', '_').replace('?', '_').replace('.', '_')
You can use re.sub():
In [1]: title = 'www.example.com/foo?bar'
In [2]: import re
In [5]: re.sub(r'[/?.]', '_', title)
Out[5]: 'www_example_com_foo_bar'
Kent
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