Python String maketrans() - translate() Methods
The maketrans() function returns a transposition table that transposes each character in the first string to the character in the second string at the same position.
How to formulate it like this:
maketrans(str1, str2, str3)str1: Specifies the list of characters to replace.
str2: Specifies the list of characters that the characters should be replaced with.
str3: Specifies the list of characters to be deleted.
return value: Returns the permutation table specifying which permutations can be used by the translate() function.
Note: To apply the transpose table you created to any text, you must use the ()translate function.
Python String translate() Method
How to formulate it like this:
string. translate(table, delete)string: The original string
table: The substitution table that defines which substitutions can be used.
delete: specifies the delete string as an optional argument.
return value: Returns a new string after permutations are made using the permutation table
In the following example we will use the translate() and maketrans() functions
Example:
# maketrans() and translate()
# specify to translate chars
str1 = "hm"
# specify to replace with
str2 = "xz"
# delete chars
str3 = "-"
# target string
string = "Ahmed-Obaid"
# using maketrans() to
table = string.maketrans(str1, str2, str3)
# Printing original string
print ("before: ", string)
# using translate() to make translations.
print ("after: ", string.translate(table))
The output will be:3
before: Ahmed-Obaid
after: AxzedObaidExternal sources:
Built-in functions - official Python documentation
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