Replace spaces with underscores in Python

Replace spaces with underscores in Python #

To replace spaces with underscores in Python:

1. Call the replace() method on the string.
2. Pass a string containing a space and a string containing an underscore to the method.
3. The replace() method will return a string with all spaces replaced by underscores.

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my_str = 'one two three'

result = my_str.replace(' ', '_')

print(result)  # 👉️ 'one_two_three'

We used the str.replace() method to replace spaces with underscores in a string.

The str.replace method returns a copy of the string with all occurrences of a substring replaced by the provided replacement.

The method takes the following parameters:

If you need to replace all whitespace characters in a string with underscores, use the re.sub() method.

To replace spaces with underscores:

1. Import the re module from the standard library.
2. Use the re.sub() method to replace all whitespace characters with underscores.
3. The returned string will have all whitespace chars replaced with underscores.

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import re

my_str = 'one    two   three'

result = re.sub(r"\s+", '-', my_str)

print(result)  # 👉️ 'one_two_three'

The re.sub method returns a new string that is obtained by replacing the occurrences of the pattern with the provided replacement.

The \s character matches unicode whitespace characters like [ \t\n\r\f\v].

The plus + is used to match the preceding character (whitespace) 1 or more times.

To replace spaces with underscores:

1. Use the str.split() method to split the string on each whitespace character.
2. Call the join() method on a string containing an underscore.
3. The join method will join the words with an underscore separator.

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my_str = 'one two three'

result = '_'.join(my_str.split())

print(my_str.split())

print(result)  # 👉️ 'one_two_three'

We used the str.split() method to split the string on each whitespace character.

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my_str = 'one two three'

# 👇️ ['one', 'two', 'three']
print(my_str.split())

The str.split() method splits the string into a list of substrings using a delimiter.

If a separator is not provided, the method regards consecutive whitespace characters as a single separator.

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my_str = 'one    two   three'

# 👇️ ['one', 'two', 'three']
print(my_str.split())

The last step is to use the str.join method to join the list of words with an underscore separator.

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my_str = 'one    two   three'

result = '_'.join(my_str.split())

print(result)  # 👉️ 'one_two_three'

The str.join method takes an iterable as an argument and returns a string which is the concatenation of the strings in the iterable.

The string the method is called on is used as the separator between elements.