I am scraping data from a dictionary and the returned data is H or A. In my for loop it is referred to as home_away = stats['home_away'].
I changed the string name to h_a = home_away.replace("A","@")
That works fine, but I also want to change H to " ".
Would I do a if statement or a for loop for that?
I tried
if home_away == "H":
home_away.replace("H"," ")
elif home_away == "A":
home_away.replace("A","@")
If the value is only a single character, why are you bothering with .replace() at all? Just reassign the whole thing.
if home_away == "H":
home_away = " "
elif home_away == "A":
home_away = "@"
If your input strings are either H or A, i.e. one character, I recommend you use a dictionary:
mapper = {'H': ' ', 'A': '@'}
home_away = mapper[home_away]
If you have multiple characters to replace, you can chain str.replace calls:
home_away = home_away.replace('H', ' ').replace('A', '@')
Alternatively, you can use a mapper dictionary as above with str.translate and str.maketrans:
home_away = 'HAAAH'
home_away = home_away.translate(str.maketrans(mapper))
print(res)
" @@@ "
Not sure what you exactly want, but an easy solution is to not use any if or else conditions and to simply just use:
h_a = home_away.replace("H"," ").replace("A","@");
This solution would ensure that any H character will be replaced with " " and any A character will be replaced with @. If there are no matches, then it would not throw any errors, instead it would retain the existing values stored within the variable and continue to run your script. .
