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Python

Posted by behar
behar
10,800 Points

How do you replace individual charachters in a string?

Im wondering how i would go about replacing an individual letter in a string. Say i have the follwing code:

While True:
    print("------")

If i later want to be able to replace those "-" individually with something else, how would i go about doing that?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

In Python, strings are immutable, which means they cannot be changed. But you can re-assign a variable that represents a string with a new string anytime you want. The new string can be created from the old one with certain charater(s) changed. Here's an example that stores a string in the variable "s" and rebuilds it using slices:

s = "------"
print(s)  # ------
s = s[:2] + 'a' + s[3:]                                                                                 
print(s)  # --a---
behar
behar
10,800 Points

Thank you very much sir!