Delete a repeated character from only one specific position and not from all places of the string in python

Question

Say there is a specific string : bacdefaxyza.

Now the character a is repeated 3 times. I now want to be able to delete or replace with "" only the a in the middle but not all. Is there a way to do so? i.e. : I need to be able to delete that a from any place I wish ( index of that character is known ). Is it possible?

I tried using the replace() function but it deletes only the first occurrence, or more, but not at a particular index/place that I need.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1883980/find-the-nth-occurrence-of-substring-in-a-string — sdemurjian, Jun 30 '15 at 18:15
I think this might be what you are looking for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12723751/replacing-letter-in-string-by-index — SirParselot, Jun 30 '15 at 18:17
@praneeth I meant to say that, I want to remove that `a` in the middle (the second one) but keep the rest. — powersource97, Jun 30 '15 at 18:25
@SirParselot yup...thanks for the link! I also got the same answer here anyways! — powersource97, Jun 30 '15 at 18:29

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 30 '15 at 18:16

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Since the index is known:

s = 'bacdefaxyza'
idx = 6
s[:idx]+s[idx+1:]

answered Jun 30 '15 at 18:16

TigerhawkT3

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I think OP means for a general string. – James Jun 30 '15 at 18:17
I don't know how OP is finding the index, so I just hard-coded `idx = 6`, but they did say that the index is known. – TigerhawkT3 Jun 30 '15 at 18:19
@TigerhawkT3 Thanks! I think that should do it!! – powersource97 Jun 30 '15 at 18:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '15 at 18:27

coming to your example, lets assign the string to a variable say s

Use the python interactive shell to test this out

>>>s = 'bacdefaxyza'

lets assign the result to a new variable called k where we are going to replace second 'a' character with empty character ''

>>>k = s[:6]+s[6:].replace('a','')

>>>print(k)
bacdefxyz

Delete a repeated character from only one specific position and not from all places of the string in python

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