I want to expand "Dr." into either "Doctor" or "Drive" to clear the confusion.
string = 'Dr. Seuss Dr.'
if string[0:3] == "Dr.":
new_string = 'Doctor Seuss Dr.'
if string[:3] == "Dr.":
another_string = 'Dr. Seuss Drive'
Is there a better way to expand out "Dr."? I can't handle cases if the string is 'I like Dr. Seuss'!
Something like this?
mystring = 'Dr. Seuss Dr.'
if 'Dr.' in mystring:
mystring = mystring.replace('Dr.', 'Doctor', 1).replace('Dr.', 'Drive')
The first replace only replaces Dr. once (notice the extra parameter added).
Thanks to shantanoo for pointing out that there is a module string and so variable names should avoid such word. I have changed the variable to mystring.
.replace takes a count parameter
I guess that you want to convert Dr. into Doctor if it is at the beginning of the string. Otherwise, you want Dr. to be converted into Driver.
You can use regex to achieve this:
import re
string = 'Dr. Seuss Dr.'
string = re.sub(re.compile('^Dr.'), 'Doctor', string)
string = re.sub(re.compile('Dr.$'), 'Driver', string)
#now string contains 'Dr. Seuss Drive'
