Question

I have a string of the type ../sometext/someothertext, and I’m trying to replace the .. in the string with the name of a website http://www.website.com.

In Python, what I’ve done is like so :

strName = "../sometext/someothertext"
strName.replace("..", "http://www.website.com")
print strName

But the only output I get is

../sometext/someothertext

I’ve also tried escaping the periods, like

strName = ../sometext/someothertext
strName.replace("\.\.", "http://www.website.com")

but the output doesn’t change. How do I do this?

Answer 1

You didn’t assign the result…

strName = strName.replace("..", "http://www.website.com")

.replace doesn’t modify the original string but returns a new string with the modifications.