Replacing the Print Command in a python script with a comment

I have the command below in a .py file

print(r"\n print series")

I want the above command/line to be replaced with a string:

"#series" ie convert the above print command into a comment prefixing the # symbol to the text following the "print" in the command above.

I am new to python. Please help.

This question was closed earlier as it was not clear what I was attempting to do. Hence, the explanation that follows:

The reason for doing this: I want to use print statements in a script for learning python/using as reference. Later, I want to change the print statement into a comment. Hence, I want to replace the beginning of the print statement with a # which will convert it into a comment. As there would be many such conversions, I wanted to do it programmatically using a string.replace or something else. Any suggestions to achieve this in another way are also welcome. Thanks.

If you want to do this within your script itself (as opposed to doing a find+replace on the code), what I'd suggest would be wrapping the print calls in a function that you can switch off:

DEBUG = True

def debug_print(*args, **kwargs):
    if DEBUG:
        print(*args, **kwargs)

Then if you have a bunch of calls like:

debug_print(r"\n print series")

they will only print as long as DEBUG is True. When you want to turn off all those print statements, you can just edit that one line:

DEBUG = False

and now nothing prints.

Here's a simple solution using regex

1. Store the command as a string in a variable called 'command'.
2. Substitute the 'print' keyword with a '#' symbol and remove the '\n' character using regex. Making sure to use '.strip()' to remove any leading or trailing spaces.

import re
command = r"\n print series"
comment = re.sub(r"\bprint\b\s*", "#", command.replace(r"\n", "")).strip()
print(comment)

This should output #series, hope this helps.