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Management of backreferences in the str.replace function #6637

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BastienRance opened this issue Oct 31, 2020 · 1 comment
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Management of backreferences in the str.replace function #6637

BastienRance opened this issue Oct 31, 2020 · 1 comment
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BastienRance commented Oct 31, 2020 •
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Hello,

Thanks for a great library!

It would be fantastic if the str.replace function could manage backreferences (as in \1 in regex).
An example of use could be:
Remove duplicated characters from a string

test = "RROBBERRT"
test = test.replace('([A-Z1-9])\1', '\1')
print(test)

Thanks!
@BastienRance BastienRance added Needs Triage Need team to review and classify feature request New feature or request labels Oct 31, 2020
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Just realized that Issue #3100 already answer this request!

@bdice bdice removed the Needs Triage Need team to review and classify label Mar 4, 2024
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