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

You can simply use list comprehension in python:

def replace_element(YOUR_LIST, set_to=NEW_VALUE):
    return [i
            if SOME_CONDITION
            else NEW_VALUE
            for i in YOUR_LIST]

for your case, where you want to replace all occurrences of 1 with 10, the code snippet will be like this:

def replace_element(YOUR_LIST, set_to=10):
    return [i
            if i != 1  # keeps all elements not equal to one
            else set_to  # replaces 1 with 10
            for i in YOUR_LIST]