Replace integers with a string in python

Question

I have a string

string = "Files in this view are 168 hours away from being moved out of the active directory to the Recycle Bin."

I just want to replace the integer part 168 with some text at that place, we can find whether the string contains an integer or not like

bool(re.compile('\d').search(string))

But how to replace the integers in the above string with a another word/string like "WOW Awesome" and totally i want the result like

"Files in this view are WOW Awesome hours away from being moved out of the active directory to the Recycle Bin."

Avinash Raj · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-29 17:35:43Z

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Use re.sub

re.sub(r'\d+', 'Wow awesome', string)

answered Sep 29, 2015 at 17:35

Avinash Raj

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aahhh thats very simple Thanks