I have a list of Farsi characters (utf8) like this:
my_list = ['ﯾ', 'ﻲ', 'ﻴ'] And I would like to replace every occurrence of characters in this list in a text with another character like 'a'. Right now my code is like this:
text = text.replace('ﻴ', 'a') text = text.replace('ﻲ', 'a') text = text.replace('ﯾ', 'a') Is there any way to do this in one shot, for example using Regex and lists in Python 3?
3>> 'ﻴ ﻲ ﯾ'.translate({0xfbfe: 'a', 0xfef2: 'a', 0xfef4: 'a'}) 'a a a' 
3>> hex(ord('.')) '0xXXXX' Replace the "." with the actual character.You could use a for loop instead:
for char in my_list: text = text.replace(char,'a') This way your list could be an arbitrary length but the size of your code wont change. Plus you aren't repeating code.
for loop. I know that in Python using re it is possible to do something like I want, but I don't know how to do it with UTF-8 characters like what I have.