String translate() Method in Python 3
The method translate() returns a copy of the string in
which all the characters have been translated using table (constructed with the
maketrans() function in the string module),optionally deleting all characters found in the string
deletechars.
Syntax
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str.translate(table[,
deletechars]);
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Parameters
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table - You can use the maketrans() helper function
in the string module to create a translation table.
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deletechars - The list of characters to be removed from
the source string.
Return Value
This method returns a translated copy of the string.
Example
The following example shows the usage of translate()
method. Under this, every vowel in a string is replaced by its vowel position.
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#!/usr/bin/python3
from
string import maketrans # Required to call maketrans function.
intab =
"aeiou"
outtab
= "12345"
trantab
= 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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Following is the example to delete 'x' and 'm'
characters from the string-
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#!/usr/bin/python3
from
string import maketrans # Required to call maketrans function.
intab =
"aeiouxm"
outtab
= "1234512"
trantab
= 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 21pl2....w4w!!!
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