To underline strings for viewers like less.
>>> underlined = normal.replace('', '_\b')
This also can be done with re.sub(), but I think it is natural to use
string methods to handle non-RE strings.
This cannot be done with '_\b'.join(), since it doesn't prepend '_\b'.
- Inyeol Lee
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:13:12AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Since '' in 'abc' now returns True, How about changing
> > 'abc'.replace('') to generate '_a_b_c_', too? It is consistent with
> > re.sub()/subn() and the cost for change is similar to '' in 'abc'
> > case.
>
> Do you have a use case? Or are you just striving for consistency? It
> would be more consistent but I'm not sure what the point is. I can
> think of situations where '' in 'abc' would be needed, but not so for
> 'abc'.replace('', '_').
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>
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