How to use string.replace() in python 3.x

Question

The string.replace() is deprecated on python 3.x. What is the new way of doing this?

Answer 1

You can use str.replace() as a chain of str.replace(). Think you have a string like 'Testing PRI/Sec (#434242332;PP:432:133423846,335)' and you want to replace all the '#',':',';','/' sign with '-'. You can replace it either this way(normal way),

>>> str = 'Testing PRI/Sec (#434242332;PP:432:133423846,335)'
>>> str = str.replace('#', '-')
>>> str = str.replace(':', '-')
>>> str = str.replace(';', '-')
>>> str = str.replace('/', '-')
>>> str
'Testing PRI-Sec (-434242332-PP-432-133423846,335)'

or this way(chain of str.replace())

>>> str = 'Testing PRI/Sec (#434242332;PP:432:133423846,335)'.replace('#', '-').replace(':', '-').replace(';', '-').replace('/', '-')
>>> str
'Testing PRI-Sec (-434242332-PP-432-133423846,335)'