Is there a better way to append certain chars in a string with a
backslash that the example below?
chr = "#$%^&_{}" # special chars to look out for
str = "123 45^ & 00 0_" # string to convert
n = "" # init new string
for i in str:
if i in chr: # if special character in str
n+='\\' # append it with a backslash
n+=i
print "old:",str
print "new:",n
Thanks
Tertius 14 24118
tertius wrote: Is there a better way to append certain chars in a string with a backslash that the example below?
chr = "#$%^&_{}" # special chars to look out for str = "123 45^ & 00 0_" # string to convert n = "" # init new string for i in str: if i in chr: # if special character in str n+='\\' # append it with a backslash n+=i print "old:",str print "new:",n
If you can afford some a priori preparation, make a dictionary
once and for all that maps each character (that isn't to be
represented by itself) to the string that represents it. E.g.,
if you inevitably start with a chr string as above, you can
make the dictionary as follows:
charmap = {}
for c in chr: charmap[c] = c+'\\'
You can also write out the dict literal directly, and in
any case you only need to prepare this charmap once and
can then use it to prepare any number of translations.
Once you have this charmap, you can use its get method to
get the translations -- and prepare a *LIST OF STRINGS* to
be joined up at the end, that's MUCH, *MUCH* faster than
a loop using += on a string:
pieces = [charmap.get(c,c ) for c in str]
and finally:
n = ''.join(pieces)
Alex
tertius <tc****@ananzi. co.za> wrote in
news:3f******** ******@hades.is .co.za: Is there a better way to append certain chars in a string with a backslash that the example below?
chr = "#$%^&_{}" # special chars to look out for str = "123 45^ & 00 0_" # string to convert n = "" # init new string for i in str: if i in chr: # if special character in str n+='\\' # append it with a backslash n+=i print "old:",str print "new:",n
Not using builtins as variable names would be better for a start. 'chr' is
a builtin function, 'str' is a builtin type.
Building a string by appending characters is never a good idea, if you try
this code with longer strings you will rapidly find it grinds to a halt.
The Pythonic way to build up a string from substrings is either to use
str.join on a list of strings, or to use StringIO.
Regular expressions are rarely the best solution to a problem, but in this
case it seems they could be: import re myStr = "123 45^ & 00 0_" print re.sub("([#$%^&_{}])", r"\\\1", myStr)
123 45\^ \& 00 0\_
The only real catch is that if your list of special characters is variable
and sometimes contains ']' you have a bit of work to build the regular
expression.
A solution without regular expressions (so it works for any string of
special characters) would be:
specialChars = "#$%^&_{}" myStr = "123 45^ & 00 0_" specials = dict([(c, '\\'+c) for c in specialChars]) print str.join('', [ specials.get(c, c) for c in myStr ])
123 45\^ \& 00 0\_
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Alex Martelli wrote: tertius wrote:
Is there a better way to append certain chars in a string with a backslash that the example below?
chr = "#$%^&_{}" # special chars to look out for str = "123 45^ & 00 0_" # string to convert n = "" # init new string for i in str: if i in chr: # if special character in str n+='\\' # append it with a backslash n+=i print "old:",str print "new:",n
If you can afford some a priori preparation, make a dictionary once and for all that maps each character (that isn't to be represented by itself) to the string that represents it. E.g., if you inevitably start with a chr string as above, you can make the dictionary as follows:
charmap = {} for c in chr: charmap[c] = c+'\\'
You can also write out the dict literal directly, and in any case you only need to prepare this charmap once and can then use it to prepare any number of translations.
Once you have this charmap, you can use its get method to get the translations -- and prepare a *LIST OF STRINGS* to be joined up at the end, that's MUCH, *MUCH* faster than a loop using += on a string:
pieces = [charmap.get(c,c ) for c in str]
and finally:
n = ''.join(pieces)
Alex
*MUCH* nicer :)
Thanks!
tertius wrote: Is there a better way to append certain chars in a string with a backslash that the example below?
chr = "#$%^&_{}" # special chars to look out for str = "123 45^ & 00 0_" # string to convert n = "" # init new string for i in str: if i in chr: # if special character in str n+='\\' # append it with a backslash n+=i print "old:",str print "new:",n
Another possibility:
for c in chr:
str = str.replace(c, r"\c")
Untested, however, but something like this should work.
Gerrit.
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:58:27 GMT, rumours say that Alex Martelli
<al***@aleax.it > might have written: charmap = {} for c in chr: charmap[c] = c+'\\'
I believe you meant charmap[c] = '\\' + c ...
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:33:31 +0200, rumours say that Gerrit Holl
<ge****@nl.linu x.org> might have written: for c in chr: str = str.replace(c, r"\c")
Perhaps you meant:
for c in chr:
str = str.replace(c, r"\%s" % c)
otherwise all characters in chr would change into a literal
'backslash-c'...
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Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:58:27 GMT, rumours say that Alex Martelli <al***@aleax.it > might have written:
charmap = {} for c in chr: charmap[c] = c+'\\'
I believe you meant charmap[c] = '\\' + c ...
Sure, if the original poster wants the backslash BEFORE the character
(the "append" in the subject suggested to me he wanted it AFTER).
Alex
"tertius" <tc****@ananzi. co.za> wrote in message
news:3f******** ******@hades.is .co.za... Is there a better way to append certain chars in a string with a backslash that the example below?
chr = "#$%^&_{}" # special chars to look out for str = "123 45^ & 00 0_" # string to convert n = "" # init new string for i in str: if i in chr: # if special character in str n+='\\' # append it with a backslash n+=i
You are pre-pending '\' (putting it before), which is probably what
you want to do, not ap-pending (putting it after). In Alex's answer,
he actually did append, as claimed you were doing, but which is
probably not what you want. If indeed not, you will want to change
c+'\\' to '\\'+c
Terry J. Reedy
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:50:19 GMT, rumours say that Alex Martelli
<al***@aleax.it > might have written: Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:58:27 GMT, rumours say that Alex Martelli <al***@aleax.it > might have written:
charmap = {} for c in chr: charmap[c] = c+'\\'
I believe you meant charmap[c] = '\\' + c ...
Sure, if the original poster wants the backslash BEFORE the character (the "append" in the subject suggested to me he wanted it AFTER).
You are correct about the subject (append instead of 'pre-pend' -sp?),
but the OP's code was not appending, in spite of the comments:
for i in str:
if i in chr: # if special character in str
n+='\\' # append it with a backslash
n+=i
I just assumed the OP was a better coder than English speaker :)
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