Replacing characters and strings in Python is a crucial task when it comes to Data Cleaning or Text Processing. Your data might have formatting issues with garbage characters that need to be removed, the categories might be having spelling issues, etc. Also while text preprocessing for NLP based problems, string replacement is the most basic and important step while preparing the textual data.

In this tutorial, we will be going over multiple ways to replace different types of strings. By the end of this tutorial, you will have the knowledge of the following:

• Python replace() method
• Regex sub() method
• join() and filter()
• Replacing numeric data in strings

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