Changing one character in a string

Question

What is the easiest way in Python to replace a character in a string?

For example:

text = \"abcdefg\";
text[1] = \"Z\";
           ^

Answer 1

if your world is 100% ascii/utf-8(a lot of use cases fit in that box):

b = bytearray(s, 'utf-8')
# process - e.g., lowercasing: 
#    b[0] = b[i+1] - 32
s = str(b, 'utf-8')

python 3.7.3