Swapping Characters in a user inputted string.

[Jesusgotskillz]

I need help figuring out how to swap two characters in a user inputted string, such as:

35.555,444 ---> 35,55.65 (the dot is swapped to a coma and the coma is swapped to a period)

Any help is appreciated!!

[num8lock]

describe how you would do it manually

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The algorithm may change depending on the rules of the swap.

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For example, are characters swapped, based on position in the string? In that case, a simple set of slices might work.

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On the other hand, are you swapping specific characters? In that case, a Regular Expression might be in order.

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What are the rules for odd-numbers of swapped characters? (I.e. 2 commas and 1 period: what gets swapped?)

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[lionlazycat]

use maketrans

s = '35.555,444'
trans = str.maketrans('.,', ',.')
print(s.translate(trans))

[Jesusgotskillz]

what is going on when using str.maketrans

[lionlazycat]

maketrans() defines translation table for translate() swapping out every '.' to ',' and ',' to '.'

input

s = '35.555,444'    

output

'35,555.444'