i need to know exactly how to use string.maketrans [closed]

Question

I am new to python, please can any one tell me how to use string.maketrans (), with some examples please ?

I find some like:

allchars = string.maketrans ('', '')

that return the character map, but i couldn't figure out how to use this approach

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

After you've created a translation table using string.maketrans, you can use the result of that to the str.translate method, eg:

import string
trans = string.maketrans('ae', 'bx') # a->b and e->x
text = 'abcdef'
print text.translate(trans)
# bbcdxf