Message216630
Documentation for str.translate only mentions a dictionary for the translation table. Actually any iterable can be used, as long as its elements are integer, None or str.
Recommend wording:
str.translate(translation_table)
Return a copy of the s where all characters have been "mapped" through the translation_table - which must be either a dictionary mapping Unicode ordinals (integers) to Unicode ordinals, strings or None,
or an iterable. In this case the ord() of each character in s is used as an index into the iterable; the corresponding element of the iterable replaces the character. If ord() of the character exceeds the index range of the iterator, no substitution is made.
Example: to shift any of the first 255 ASCII characters to the next:
>>> 'Now is the time for all good men'.translate(range(1, 256))
'Opx!jt!uif!ujnf!gps!bmm!hppe!nfo'
COMMENT: I placed mapped in quotes as technically this only applies to dictionaries. Not sure what the best word is. |
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2014-04-17 01:01:22 | bgailer | set | recipients:
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2014-04-17 01:01:22 | bgailer | link | issue21279 messages |
2014-04-17 01:01:21 | bgailer | create | |
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