How do I get str.translate to work with Unicode strings?

Question

I have the following code:

import string
def translate_non_alphanumerics(to_translate, translate_to=\'_\'):
    not_letters_or_digits = u\'!\"#%\\\'()*+,-./:         


        

Answer 1

I found that where in python 2.7, with type str, you would write

import string
table = string.maketrans("123", "abc")
print "135".translate(table)

whereas with type unicode you would say

table = {ord(s): unicode(d) for s, d in zip("123", "abc")}
print u"135".translate(table)

In python 3.6 you would write

table = {ord(s): d for s, d in zip("123", "abc")}
print("135".translate(table))

maybe this is helpful.