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Python replace multiple strings

I am looking to replace “ “, “\r”, “\n”, “<”, “>”, “’” (single quote), and ‘”’ (double quote) with “” (empty). I’m also looking to replace “;” and “|” with “,”.

Would this be handled by re.search since I want to be able to search anywhere in the text, or would I use re.sub.

What would be the best way to handle this? I have found bits and pieces, but not where multiple regexes are handled.

Answer 1

If you need to replace only single characters then you could use str.translate():

import string

table = string.maketrans(';|', ',,')
deletechars = ' \r\n<>\'"'

print "ex'a;m|ple\n".translate(table, deletechars)
# -> exa,m,ple