Question

How to replace multiple words in string with one word in Python

Answer 1

s = 'Python is an interpreted high-level general-purpose programming language'
   
words_to_replace = ["programming", 'is', 'interpreted'] 
   
replace = 'WORD'
   
s = ' '.join([replace if i in words_to_replace else i for i in s.split()]) 
 
print(s)
 
        
'''
run:
 
Python WORD an WORD high-level general-purpose WORD language
        
'''

 

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Answer 2

import re

s = 'Python is an interpreted high-level general-purpose programming language'
   
replace = 'WORD'

s = re.sub('(programming|is|interpreted)', replace, s)
 
print(s)
 
        
'''
run:
 
Python WORD an WORD high-level general-purpose WORD language
        
'''

 

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