替换Python中的utf8字符列表

Question

I have a list of Farsi characters (utf8) like this:

my_list = ['ﯾ', 'ﻲ', 'ﻴ']

And I would like to replace every occurrence of characters in this list in a text with another character like 'a'. Right now my code is like this:

text = text.replace('ﻴ', 'a')
text = text.replace('ﻲ', 'a')
text = text.replace('ﯾ', 'a')

Is there any way to do this in one shot, for example using Regex and lists in Python 3?

Answer 1

3>> 'ﻴ ﻲ ﯾ'.translate({0xfbfe: 'a', 0xfef2: 'a', 0xfef4: 'a'})
'a a a'

str.translate()

Answer 2

You could use a for loop instead:

for char in my_list:
    text = text.replace(char,'a')

This way your list could be an arbitrary length but the size of your code wont change. Plus you aren't repeating code.