How would I go about taking a string：
("h1", "h2", "h3, "h4")
And substituting these values with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4?
Correspondingly, how I would I preform the same operation but on a list instead?
2 Answers
to_replace = ["h1","h2","h3","h4"]
replaced = [ int(s.replace("h","")) for s in to_replace ]
If this is what you want.
It's not exactly clear; I'm assuming that your input is not literally a string "(\"h1\", \"h2\", \"h3\", \"h4\")", but a list of strings.
And I'm not sure what you meant by your second question, as it appears to be the same as the first.
I will update my answer accordingly =)
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myClone
To MikeD: Yeah, basically that is what I want to do. To give some context, I am trying translate R code into Python and what I am trying to do is build a multi-dimensional array out of 3 strings/lists/whatever that contain 4 elements per string/list. I guess first off, what is better to use for building an array: a list or a string? You'll have to please forgive my cryptic descriptions because I am a n00b with Python. :)
myClone
To Justin: I apologize for my unclear question. Its partially because I am not sure what it is that I am after. I have an R script that I am trying to translate. (I know there is rPy to handle this stuff automagically, but I am trying to learn Python by translation). What you offered looks close. In R it reads like this: hClasses <- as.numeric(gsub("h", "", segmentsH)). I tried what you had but wrote it this way: segmentsH = ["h1", "h2", "h3", "h4"] <br> hClasses = [ int(s.replace("h","")) for s in segmentsH ].Worked perfectly. Many thanks!
This would strip out every non-numeric character (not only h):
>>> s = ["h1", "h2" , "h3" , "h4"]
>>> [int(filter(lambda c: c.isdigit(), x)) for x in s]
[1, 2, 3, 4]
or
>>> s = ["x1", "b2" , "c3" , "h4"]
>>> [int(filter(lambda c: c.isdigit(), x)) for x in s]
[1, 2, 3, 4]
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myClone
ChristopeD: Thanks for this alternate solution. This may come in handy later on in my script. :) Appreciate your help.
"(\"h1", \"h2\", \"h3\", \"h4\")"? Or a list of strings?