python列表替换元素,替换列表python列表中的元素

I have a list of lists as follows:

list=[]

*some code to append elements to list*

list=[['a','bob'],['a','bob'],['a','john']]

I want to go through this list and change all instances of 'bob to 'b' and leave others unchanged.

for x in list:

for a in x:

if "bob" in a:

a.replace("bob", 'b')

After printing out x it is still the same as list, but not as follows:

list=[['a','b'],['a','b'],['a','john']]

Why is the change not being reflected in list?

解决方案

Because str.replace doesn't work in-place, it returns a copy. As immutable objects, you need to assign the strings to elements in your list of lists.

You can assign directly to your list of lists if you extract indexing integers via enumerate:

L = [['a','bob'],['a','bob'],['a','john']]

for i, x in enumerate(L):

for j, a in enumerate(x):

if 'bob' in a:

L[i][j] = a.replace('bob', 'b')

Result:

[['a', 'b'], ['a', 'b'], ['a', 'john']]

More Pythonic would be to use a list comprehension to create a new list. For example, if only the second of two values contains names which need checking:

L = [[i, j if j != 'bob' else 'b'] for i, j in L]