Can I pass a list of strings as "old" in str.replace(old, new[, count])?

Asked Jun 24 '21 at 18:42

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I am cleaning a lot of data and calling replace() for every string/character that I want to replace is not difficult but I want to know if it can be done this way.

What I am thinking is:

to_be_replaced = ['\n' , '\t' , '"']
str.replace(to_be_replaced, '')

Would this work?

edited Jun 24 '21 at 18:45

jonrsharpe

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Did you try it? What did the error say ? – JeffUK Jun 24 '21 at 18:45
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No, you can't. You can do it with `re.sub()` and a regexp that matches any of those characters. – Barmar Jun 24 '21 at 18:45
No, take a look at the [docs](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.replace) – Alex Jun 24 '21 at 18:46

Can I pass a list of strings as "old" in str.replace(old, new[, count])?

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