Is there a way to do character translation / transliteration (kind of like the tr command) using Python? Some examples in Perl would be: my $string = "some fields"; $string =~ tr/dies/eaid/; print $string; # domi failed $string = 'the cat sat on the mat.'; $string =~ tr/a-z/b/d; print "$string\n"; # b b b. (because option "d" is used to delete characters not replaced) Continue reading...