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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1996-05-28 23:08:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1996-05-28 23:08:45 (GMT) |
| commit | 2539528810e844c9ee293bb46b4deb58a9e38447 (patch) | |
| tree | c87a7ef89f81c57d5e32dd28cc0b526a3c4f8e45 /Lib/string.py | |
| parent | a13edb489bf5bd7fe65436c2370ae6734481825b (diff) | |
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add translate() -- which was in strop per release 1.3
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diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index 8ad900b..c959347 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -253,6 +253,14 @@ def expandtabs(s, tabsize=8): line = '' return res + line +# Character translation through look-up table. +def translate(s, table): + if type(table) != type('') or len(table) != 256: + raise TypeError, "translation table must be 256-char string" + res = "" + for c in s: + res = res + table[ord(c)] + return res # Try importing optional built-in module "strop" -- if it exists, # it redefines some string operations that are 100-1000 times faster. |