Function replace

Lib/pydoc.py:198–203

Do a series of global replacements on a string.

(text, *pairs)

                inspect.istraceback(object) or inspect.iscode(object))

def replace(text, *pairs):
    """Do a series of global replacements on a string."""
    while pairs:
        text = pairs[1].join(text.split(pairs[0]))
        pairs = pairs[2:]
    return text

def cram(text, maxlen):
    """Omit part of a string if needed to make it fit in a maximum length."""