先来看下关于这两个函数的官方定义:
string.maketrans(from, to):Return a translation table suitable for passing to translate(), that will map each character in from into the character at the same position in to; from and to must have the same length.
string.translate(s, table[, deletechars]):Delete all characters from s that are in deletechars (if present), and then translate the characters using table, which must be a 256-character string giving the translation for each character value, indexed by its ordinal. If table is None, then only the character deletion step is performed.
下面的代码是对这两个函数进行的封装:
#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding:utf-8 -*- import string def translator(frm='', to='', delete='', keep=None): if len(to) == 1: to = to * len(frm) trans = string.maketrans(frm, to) if keep is not None: trans_all = string.maketrans('', '') #keep.translate(trans_all, delete),从要保留的字符中剔除要删除的字符 #trans_all.translate(trans_all, keep.translate(trans_all, delete)),从翻译表中删除要保留的字符,即取保留字符的补集 delete = trans_all.translate(trans_all, keep.translate(trans_all, delete)) def translate(s): return s.translate(trans, delete) return translate if __name__ == '__main__': #result:12345678 digits_only = translator(keep=string.digits) print digits_only('Eric chen: 1234-5678') #result:Eric chen: - no_digits = translator(delete=string.digits) print no_digits('Eric chen: 1234-5678') #result:Eric chen: ****-**** digits_to_hash = translator(frm=string.digits, to='*') print digits_to_hash('Eric chen: 1234-5678')
当以string.maketrans('', '')方法调用maketrans时,翻译表正好是有256个字符的字符串t。翻译表生成的字符串(忽略不可打印字符)为“!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~”,本质上与ASCII表相对应。
其实调用maketrans函数时,已经完成了转换。例如string.maketrans('ABCD', 'abcd'),调用完成后,翻译表生成的包含256个字符的字符串(忽略不可打印字符)为“!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@abcdEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~”,该翻译表中的原“ABCD”的位置已被“abcd”替换。
当你把t作为第一个参数传入translate方法时,原字符串中的每一个字符c,在处理完成后都会被翻译成字符t[ord(c)]。
For Unicode objects, the translate() method does not accept the optional deletechars argument. Instead, it returns a copy of the s where all characters have been mapped through the given translation table which must be a mapping of Unicode ordinals to Unicode ordinals, Unicode strings or None. Unmapped characters are left untouched. Characters mapped to None are deleted.
下面的代码是对unicode字符串进行过滤:
import sets class Keeper(object): def __init__(self, keep): self.keep = sets.Set(map(ord, keep)) def __getitem__(self, n): if n not in self.keep: return None return unichr(n) def __call__(self, s): return unicode(s).translate(self) makeFilter = Keeper if __name__ == '__main__': #result:人民 just_people = makeFilter(u'人民') print just_people(u'*成立了') #删除unicode字符 #result:中华*成立了! translate_table = dict((ord(char), None) for char in u'人民') print unicode(u'*成立了!').translate(translate_table) #替换unicode字符 #result:中华***成立了! translate_table = dict((ord(char), u'*') for char in u'人民') print unicode(u'*成立了!').translate(translate_table)Unicode字符串的translate方法只需要一个参数:一个序列或映射,并且根据字符串中的每个字符的码值进行索引。码值不是一个映射的键(或者序列的索引值)的字符会被直接复制,不做改变。与每个字符码对应的值必须是一个unicode字符串(该字符的替换物)或者None(这意味着该字符需要被删除)。通常我们使用dict或list作为unicode字符串的translate方法的参数,来翻译或删除某些字符。