Replace two consecutive special characters with space

Asked Mar 27 '17 at 14:46

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I am trying to replace occurrence of two consecutive special characters with space for that i have written below code but i am not getting proper result.

Code:

import re
text = "08391@#AP@#RETSEHC@#TSEW@#TS@#ELDDIB@#E@#163"
deciphername = ciphername[::-1]
deciphername.replace("@#"," ")

Output:

'361 E BIDDLE ST\xef\xbf\xbd\xef\xbf\xbdWEST CHESTER\xef\xbf\xbdPA\xef\xbf\xbd19380'

Expected Output:

361 E BIDDLE ST WEST CHESTER PA 19380

What i am doing wrong ?

asked Mar 27 '17 at 14:46

animal

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Strings are immutable, `replace` does not replace in-place. Use `deciphername = deciphername.replace("@#"," ")`. When this is fixed, your `replace` works fine. Also, no need to `import re` if you only use `str.replace`. – tobias_k Mar 27 '17 at 14:47
what is `ciphername[::-1]` ? – RomanPerekhrest Mar 27 '17 at 14:48
@RomanPerekhrest it reverses my string. – animal Mar 27 '17 at 14:49
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@tobias_k is correct but you also inverted the order of the replace if you notice the pound sign comes first so it should be `('#@', ' ')` – gold_cy Mar 27 '17 at 14:50
@tobias_k Thanks for the solution. It worked. – animal Mar 27 '17 at 14:53

Replace two consecutive special characters with space

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