How come string.maketrans does not work in Python 3.1?

Question

I\'m a Python newbie.

How come this doesn\'t work in Python 3.1?

from string import maketrans   # Required to call maketrans function.

intab = \"aei         


        

Answer 1

You don't need to use bytes.maketrans() when str would be simpler and eliminate the need for the 'b' prefix:

print("Swap vowels for numbers.".translate(str.maketrans('aeiou', '12345')))