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Tobias Woods
Tobias Woods

Reputation: 35

Replacing spaces in lists

I'm creating a google searcher in python. Is there any way that I can replace a space in a list with a "+" for my url? This is my code so far:

q=input("Question=")
qlist=list(q)
#print(qlist)

Can I replace any spaces in my list with a plus, and then turn that back into a string?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 255

Answers (3)

Mark Moretto
Mark Moretto

Reputation: 2348

Just want to add another line of thought there. Try the urllib library for parsing url strings.

Here's an example:

import urllib

## Create an empty dictionary to hold values (for questions and answers).
data = dict()

## Sample input
input = 'This is my question'

### Data key can be 'Question'
data['Question='] = input

### We'll pass that dictionary hrough the urlencode method
url_values = urllib.parse.urlencode(data)

### And print results
print(url_values)

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#Alternatively, you can setup the dictionary a little better if you only have a couple of key-value pairs

## Input
input = 'This is my question'

# Our dictionary; We can set the input value as the value to the Question key
data = {
    'Question=': input
    }

print(urllib.parse.urlencode(data))

Output:

'Question%3D=This+is+my+question'

Upvotes: 1

Tippecanoe
Tippecanoe

Reputation: 308

Look at the join and split operations in python.

q = 'dog cat'
list_info = q.split()

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.split

q = ['dog', 'cat']
s_info = ''.join(q)

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.join

Upvotes: 0

Fallenreaper
Fallenreaper

Reputation: 10682

You can just join it together to create 1 long string.

qlist = my_string.split(" ")
result = "+".join(qlist)
print("Output string: {}".format(result))

Upvotes: 0

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