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Python - replace last 4 characters in string
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In this article, we would like to show you how to replace last 4 characters in string in Python.
Quick solution:
text = "12345"
size = len(text) # text length
replacement = "ABCD" # replace with this
text = text.replace(text[size - 4:], replacement)
print(text) # 1ABCD
Practical example
In this example, we use replace() method to replace last 4 characters in text string.
text = "12345"
print("String before:", text)
size = len(text) # text length
replacement = "ABCD" # replace with this
text = text.replace(text[size - 4:], replacement)
print("String after: ", text) # 1ABCD
Output:
String before: 12345
String after: 1ABCD
Note:
Number of characters to replace (
4) and number of characters inreplacementdon't have to be the same.