finding and replacing elements in a list

Question

I have to search through a list and replace all occurrences of one element with another. So far my attempts in code are getting me nowhere, what is the best way to do this?<

Answer 1

>>> a=[1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5,1]
>>> item_to_replace = 1
>>> replacement_value = 6
>>> indices_to_replace = [i for i,x in enumerate(a) if x==item_to_replace]
>>> indices_to_replace
[0, 5, 10]
>>> for i in indices_to_replace:
...     a[i] = replacement_value
... 
>>> a
[6, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>>