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Reputation: 179

replace multiple characters for folder-names

I'm on Windows and Windows does not like the characters '?/"|:*<>' for folder-names. Now I wan't to replace said characters with '_'. It seems to work if I .replace(':', '_') but not with any other character. But anyway, I want to replace all the above characters. I tried (somestring).replace(':', '_').replace('?', '_') but it does not work.

How it is right now:

with open(unidecode(somestring).replace(':', '_')+'/{0}_{1}.txt'.format(counter, points), 'w+', encoding='utf-8') as outfile: outfile.write('{0}\n\n{1}\n'.format(stringhere, somecontent))

As said, it replaces the ':' just fine. But no other character. How can I replace multiple characters in this case?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 111

Answers (2)

New2coding
New2coding

Reputation: 717

This should work:

res = ''.join(['_' if letter in '?/"|:*<>' else letter for letter in fe])
print(res)
#__________abcdefg______

Upvotes: 1

Rocky Li
Rocky Li

Reputation: 5958

Use regex

import re
fe = '?/"|:*<>?/abcdefg"|:*<>'
ke = re.sub(r'[?/"|:*<>]', '_', fe)

>>> fe
'?/"|:*<>?/abcdefg"|:*<>'

>>> ke
'__________abcdefg______'

Upvotes: 1

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