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

If you absolutely insist on working with 8-bit bytes:

>>> intab = b"aeiou"
>>> outtab = b"12345"
>>> trantab = bytes.maketrans(intab, outtab)
>>> strg = b"this is string example....wow!!!";
>>> print(strg.translate(trantab));
b'th3s 3s str3ng 2x1mpl2....w4w!!!'
>>>