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erikbstack
erikbstack

Reputation: 13244

Other ways to replace single character

Is there a simpler way to do the following:

def replace(txt,pos,new_char):
    return txt[:pos] + new_char + txt[pos+1:]

to do the following?

>>> replace('12345',2,'b')
'12b45'

Upvotes: 3

Views: 100

Answers (3)

MostafaR
MostafaR

Reputation: 3695

Just tested some solutions to find the best performance,

The tester source code was:

import __main__
from itertools import permutations
from time import time

def replace1(txt, pos, new_char):
    return txt[:pos] + new_char + txt[pos+1:]

def replace2(txt, pos, new_char):
    return '{0}{1}{2}'.format(txt[:pos], new_char, txt[pos+1:])

def replace3(txt, pos, new_char):
    return ''.join({pos: new_char}.get(idx, c) for idx, c in enumerate(txt))

def replace4(txt, pos, new_char):    
    txt = list('12345')
    txt[pos] = new_char
    ''.join(txt)

def replace5(txt, pos, new_char):
    return '%s%s%s' % (txt[:pos], new_char, txt[pos+1:])


words = [''.join(x) for x in permutations('abcdefgij')]

for i in range(1, 6):
    func = getattr(__main__, 'replace{}'.format(i))

    start = time()
    for word in words:
        result = func(word, 2, 'X')
    print time() - start

And it's the result:

0.233116149902
0.409259080887
2.64006495476
0.612321138382
0.302225828171

Upvotes: 3

Harpal
Harpal

Reputation: 12577

Not sure if this is simpler:

>>> txt = list('12345')
>>> txt[2] = 'b'
>>> ''.join(txt)
'12b45'

Upvotes: 2

Jon Clements
Jon Clements

Reputation: 142106

Not sure about "better", but an alternative is to adapt something like the following:

>>> ''.join({2: 'b', 4: 'x'}.get(idx, c) for idx, c in enumerate(s))
'12b4x'

Upvotes: 1

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