gwsu2008/replace.py

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Created November 25, 2019 00:22

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A Python function that does multiple string replace ops in a single pass.

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 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)

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