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How do I modify a single character in a string, in Python? Something like:
a = "hello"
a[2] = "m"
'str' object does not support item assignment.
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In Python, the . replace() method and the re. sub() function are often used to clean up text by removing strings or substrings or replacing them.
String are immutable in Java. You can't change them. You need to create a new string with the character replaced.
Python strings are immutable (i.e. they can't be modified).
Strings are immutable in Python. You can use a list of characters instead:
a = list("hello")
When you want to display the result use ''.join(a):
a[2] = 'm'
print ''.join(a)
In python, string are immutable. If you want to change a single character, you'll have to use slicing:
a = "hello"
a = a[:2] + "m" + a[3:]
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