Looking to do multiple search and replaces

[fpemberton]

I have a string which is over 400 characters long and theres a "?" and a newline after every 100 characters. I was wondering how can I replace multiple substrings( 100 chars long) multiple times within a string. To put it another way, this is what i want to do.

string to find ("abcdef") replace it with ("ffffff")
search again, string to find ("decfef") replace it with ("gggggg"). Thanks, any help would be appreciated.

 

[jemminger]

how about

replace_strings = {'abcdef': 'ffffff', 'decfef': 'gggggg'}

for key in replace_strings:
  data_string.replace(key, replace_strings[key])

-jeff

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[134u]

import string
old_str = '''
One
Two
One
Two
One
Two
One
Two
One
Two
One
Two
'''
print "Old String",old_str
print "\n\n"
new_string = string.replace(old_str,'One','1')
print "New String",new_string