cardinal_pythonlib.stringfunc

Original code copyright (C) 2009-2022 Rudolf Cardinal (rudolf@pobox.com).

This file is part of cardinal_pythonlib.

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cardinal_pythonlib.stringfunc.find_nth(s: str, x: str, n: int = 0, overlap: bool = False) → int[source]

Finds the position of nth occurrence of x in s, or -1 if there isn’t one.

  • The n parameter is zero-based (i.e. 0 for the first, 1 for the second…).

  • If overlap is true, allows fragments to overlap. If not, they must be distinct.

As per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1883980/find-the-nth-occurrence-of-substring-in-a-string

cardinal_pythonlib.stringfunc.mangle_unicode_to_ascii(s: Any) → str[source]

Mangle unicode to ASCII, losing accents etc. in the process.

cardinal_pythonlib.stringfunc.multiple_replace(text: str, rep: Dict[str, str]) → str[source]

Returns a version of text in which the keys of rep (a dict) have been replaced by their values.

As per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6116978/python-replace-multiple-strings.

cardinal_pythonlib.stringfunc.replace_in_list(stringlist: Iterable[str], replacedict: Dict[str, str]) → List[str][source]

Returns a list produced by applying multiple_replace() to every string in stringlist.

Parameters:

  • stringlist – list of source strings

  • replacedict – dictionary mapping “original” to “replacement” strings

Returns:

list of final strings

cardinal_pythonlib.stringfunc.split_string(x: str, n: int) → List[str][source]

Split string into chunks of length n

cardinal_pythonlib.stringfunc.strnum(prefix: str, num: int, suffix: str = '') → str[source]

Makes a string of the format <prefix><number><suffix>.

cardinal_pythonlib.stringfunc.strnumlist(prefix: str, numbers: List[int], suffix: str = '') → List[str][source]

Makes a string of the format <prefix><number><suffix> for every number in numbers, and returns them as a list.

cardinal_pythonlib.stringfunc.strseq(prefix: str, first: int, last: int, suffix: str = '') → List[str][source]

Makes a string of the format <prefix><number><suffix> for every number from first to last inclusive, and returns them as a list.