Mercurial > cpython-lru_cache-weakref
diff Lib/stringold.py @ 3639:70183592370e legacy-trunk
add translate() -- which was in strop per release 1.3
| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> |
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| date | Tue, 28 May 1996 23:08:45 +0000 |
| parents | 4f9d4e73057c |
| children | 1d134ecda094 |
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--- a/Lib/stringold.py Tue May 28 23:08:25 1996 +0000 +++ b/Lib/stringold.py Tue May 28 23:08:45 1996 +0000 @@ -253,6 +253,14 @@ line = '' return res + line +# Character translation through look-up table. +def translate(s, table): + if type(table) != type('') or len(table) != 256: + raise TypeError, "translation table must be 256-char string" + res = "" + for c in s: + res = res + table[ord(c)] + return res # Try importing optional built-in module "strop" -- if it exists, # it redefines some string operations that are 100-1000 times faster.