String maketrans() Method in Python 3
The maketrans() method returns a translation table that maps each character in the intabstring into the character at the same position in
the outtab string. Then this table is passed to the translate() function.
Note: Both intab and outtab must have the same
length.
Syntax
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str.maketrans(intab,
outtab]);
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Parameters
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intab - This is the string having actual characters.
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outtab - This is the string having corresponding
mapping character.
Return Value
This method returns a translate table to be
used translate() function.
Example
The following example shows the usage of maketrans()
method. Under this, every vowel in a string is replaced by its vowel position −
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#!/usr/bin/python3
intab =
"aeiou"
outtab
= "12345"
trantab
= str.maketrans(intab, outtab)
str =
"this is string example....wow!!!"
print
(str.translate(trantab))
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Result
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th3s 3s
str3ng 2x1mpl2....w4w!!!
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