Python String | replace()

replace() is an inbuilt function in Python programming language that returns a copy of the string where all occurrences of a substring is replaced with another substring.

Syntax :

string.replace(old, new, count)

Parameters :

old – old substring you want to replace.
new – new substring which would replace the old substring.

count – the number of times you want to replace the old substring with the new substring. (Optional )

Return Value :
It returns a copy of the string where all occurrences of a substring is replaced with another substring.

Below is the code demonstrating replace() :

# Python3 program to demonstrate the  
# use of replace() method   
  
string = "geeks for geeks geeks geeks geeks" 
   
# Prints the string by replacing geeks by Geeks  
print(string.replace("geeks", "Geeks"))  
  
# Prints the string by replacing only 3 occurrence of Geeks   
print(string.replace("geeks", "GeeksforGeeks", 3)) 

Output :

Geeks for Geeks Geeks Geeks Geeks
GeeksforGeeks for GeeksforGeeks GeeksforGeeks geeks geeks

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