makeReplacer¶

emlib.textlib.makeReplacer(conditions)[source]¶

Create a function to replace many subtrings at once

Parameters:: conditions (dict) – a dictionary mapping a string to its replacement
Return type:: Callable
Returns:: a function to be called to produce the given transformation

Example

Create a function to remove some unwanted characters

>>> import emlib.textlib
>>> replacer = emlib.textlib.makeReplacer({"[": "", "]": "", '"': '', "'": "", "{": "", "}": ""})
>>> replacer("[foo:'{bar}']")
foo:bar