How to ignore specific characters in string

Question

I have these variables

m1 = 'ZZZZZ'

m2 = 'Z___Z'

m3 = 'ZZZZZ'

that represent a maze. When I print these strings out, I want it to ignore the underscores and replace them with spaces. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

You can use .replace() :

For example,

'Z___Z'.replace('_', ' ')

will output:

Z   Z