Chrisvandr

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import math
import array
import random
import pickle
import pandas as pd
from deap import base
from deap import benchmarks
from deap import creator

carlsmith

import re

def replace(string, substitutions):

    substrings = sorted(substitutions, key=len, reverse=True)
    regex = re.compile('|'.join(map(re.escape, substrings)))
    return regex.sub(lambda match: substitutions[match.group(0)], string)

bgusach

def multireplace(string, replacements, ignore_case=False):
    """
    Given a string and a replacement map, it returns the replaced string.

    :param str string: string to execute replacements on
    :param dict replacements: replacement dictionary {value to find: value to replace}
    :param bool ignore_case: whether the match should be case insensitive
    :rtype: str

    """