replace characters not working in python

I am using beautiful soup and I am writing a crawler and have the following code in it: print soup.originalEncoding #self.addtoindex(page, soup) links=soup('a') for link in links: if('href' in dict(link.attrs)): link['href'].replace('..', '') url=urljoin(page, link['href']) if url.find("'") != -1: continue url = url.split('?')[0] url = url.split('#')[0] if url[0:4] == 'http': newpages.add(url) pages = newpages The link[‘href’].replace(‘..’, … Read more