having problems with .replace()

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I'm having issues replacing a "?" with a zero. What ogtL is just a list of numbers that I've taken from an excel file. From that excel is just more numbers.I'm just having problems as to why its not working and I would also like some help on putting the new string back into ogtL.

for eachWord in ogtL: #ogtL is a List
    newString=""
    for eachCharacter in eachWord:
        newString+=eachCharacter
        newString.replace("?","0")
    print(newString)

What is the output you're getting? – Keiwan May 16 '16 at 20:51 — Keiwan, May 16 '16 at 20:51

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '16 at 20:53

i think the problem is you're not saving the output of your replace to a variable.

for eachWord in ogtL: #ogtL is a List
    newString=""
    for eachCharacter in eachWord:
        newString+=eachCharacter
        newString = newString.replace("?","0")
    print(newString)

You also don't need to iterate of each character like that, I think you can do this:

for eachWord in ogtL: #ogtL is a List
    newString=eachWord.replace("?","0")        
    print(newString)

having problems with .replace()

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