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>>> re.sub(r'\sAND\s', ' & ', 'Baked Beans And Spam', flags=re.IGNORECASE)
'Baked Beans & Spam'
- The pattern may be a string or an RE object; if you need to specify regular
- expression flags, you must use a RE object, or use embedded modifiers in a
- pattern; for example, ``sub("(?i)b+", "x", "bbbb BBBB")`` returns ``'x x'``.
+ The pattern may be a string or an RE object.
The optional argument *count* is the maximum number of pattern occurrences to be
replaced; *count* must be a non-negative integer. If omitted or zero, all