How to remove "n" of a string in python3?

Question

if __name__ == '__main__':
    string =[' n            Boeing Vancouvern          ', 'n          Airbusn        ', 'n          Lockheed Martinn        ', 'n          Rolls-Roycen        ', 'n          Northrop Grummann        ', 'n          BOMBARDIERn        ', 'n          Raytheonn        ']
    for item in string:
        item.replace("n"," ")
        item.strip()
    print(string)

the output is the same as the input, why?

Asked By: iris

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Answer 1

You need to review the documentation again:

Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the optional argument count is given, only the first count occurrences are replaced.

In other words, item.replace("n"," ") on its own does nothing.

Answered By: Lightness Races in Orbit

Answer 2

You can use a list comprehension like:

Code:

[s.replace("n", " ") for s in a_string]

Test Code:

a_string = [' n            Boeing Vancouvern          ',
          'n          Airbusn        ',
          'n          Lockheed Martinn        ',
          'n          Rolls-Roycen        ',
          'n          Northrop Grummann        ',
          'n          BOMBARDIERn        ',
          'n          Raytheonn        ']


print([s.replace("n", " ") for s in a_string])

Results:

['              Boeing Vancouver           ', 
 '           Airbus         ', 
 '           Lockheed Martin         ', 
 '           Rolls-Royce         ', 
 '           Northrop Grumman         ', 
 '           BOMBARDIER         ', 
 '           Raytheon         ']

Answered By: Stephen Rauch

Answer 3

String are imutable in python. You can simply strip the leading or trailing whitespaces using list comprehension to make new list.

[x.strip() for x in string]

Answered By: Rahul

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