Oct 1, 2016 · All string characters are unicode literal in Python 3; as a consequence, since str.split() splits on all white space characters, that means it splits on unicode white space characters.

I would like to use the .replace function to replace multiple strings. I currently have string.replace("condition1", "") but would like to have something like string.replace("condition1", "").

Aug 31, 2016 · And just for completeness, Java is like Python in that the String.substring () method takes start and one-past-end. This one just bit me hard, I had assumed it was length like every other …

That is, the string provided as an argument is considered as a set of characters, not as a substring. lstrip and rstrip work the same way, except that lstrip only removes characters on the left (at the …

Feb 26, 2012 · The string.replace() is deprecated on python 3.x. What is the new way of doing this?

Aug 9, 2010 · 571 Does Python have a string contains substring method? 99% of use cases will be covered using the keyword, in, which returns True or False:

str.find() and str.index() are nearly identical. the biggest difference is that when a string is not found, str.index() throws an error, like the one you got, while str.find() returns -1 as others' have posted. …

Follow-up: How to find all occurrences of a substring in a string while ignore some characters in Python?

52 The Python documentation notes the difference between the three methods. str.isdigit Return true if all characters in the string are digits and there is at least one character, false otherwise. Digits …

Mar 2, 2015 · result = text.lower().replace(string.punctuation, ' ').split(' ') With great python comes great responsibility: don't abuse this feature! The canonical maximum line length codified in PEP 8 is 80 …