Changing a string in a list

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I have this huge function which work as expected

def bigM_init(A,signs,b,c,M,cond):
# lines: will be the rows of the matrix
    lines = []
    var=[]
# column: where to put the next nonzero entry
    column = 0
# total number of columns in matrix
    size = len(signs)+signs.count(">=")
    for s in signs:
        if s == '=':
            new = column * [0] + [1] + (size - column - 1) * [0]
            wen=['$a_{}$'.format({column+A.ncols()})]
            column += 1
        elif s == '>=':
            new = column * [0] + [-1, 1] + (size - column - 2) * [0]
            wen=['$\\varepsilon_{}$'.format({column+A.ncols()}),'$a_{}$'.format({column+A.ncols()+1})]
            column += 2
        elif s == '<=':
            new = column * [0] + [1] + (size - column - 1) * [0]
            wen=['$\\varepsilon_{}$'.format({column+A.ncols()})]
            column += 1
        lines.append(new)
        var.append(wen)
    mat = matrix(lines)
    hr=flatten(['$x_{}$'.format({i}) for i in range(0,A.ncols())]+var)
    b1=list(b)
    c1=list(c)
    C0=block_matrix([[A,mat]],subdivide=false)
    C1=list(C0)
    C2=[list(v) for v in C1]
    [C2[i].append(-b1[i]) for i in range(len(C1))]
    H=[v for v in hr if v.startswith('$a_')]
    HH=[hr.index(v) for v in H]
    C3=[flatten([c for c in C2 if c[i]==1]) for i in HH]
    C4=[v[:i] for v,i in zip(C3,HH)]
    C5=[v[i+1:] for v,i in zip(C3,HH)]
    C6=[v+[0]+w for v,w in zip(C4,C5)] 
    C7= [[-M*_ for _ in C6[i]] for i in range(len(C6))]
    C8=matrix(C7)
    C9=list(sum(C8))
    cf= c1+list(zero_vector(SR, len(new)+1))
    C10=[-v+w for v,w in zip(C9,cf)]
    C0p=matrix([list(C0[i])+[b1[i]] for i in range(len(b1))])
    C11m=block_matrix([[C0p],[-matrix(C10)]],subdivide=false)
    C11l=list(block_matrix([[C0p],[-matrix(C10)]],subdivide=false))
    #hc=['']+list(HH)+['$z$']        
    base_init=[]
    for j in range(len(signs)) :
        if signs[j]==">=" :
            base_init.append('$a_{}$'.format({j}))
        if signs[j]=="=" :
            base_init.append('$a_{}$'.format({j}))
        if signs[j]=="<=" :
            base_init.append('$\\varepsilon_{}$'.format({j+len(H)})) 
    hr=list(hr)+list(['$b$'])
    hc=['']+list(base_init)+['$z$'] 
    t = table(C11l, header_row=hr,  header_column=hc,frame=True)
    if cond==0:
        return t
    if cond==1:
        return C11m
    if cond==2:
        return hc
    if cond==3:
        return hr

It can be applied on the following exemple

b=vector([8,6,4])
c=vector([5,4,2])
A=matrix(3,3, [3,2,1,4,3,-1,1,2,2])
signs1 = ['=','>=','<=']
M=100
var=bigM_init(A,signs1,b,c,M,3)
base=bigM_init(A,signs1,b,c,M,2)

show(base)

My first problem is the following, the show(base) output seems weird [,$𝚊⎯{𝟶}$,$𝚊⎯{𝟷}$,$\𝚟𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚘𝚗⎯{𝟺}$}}$𝚣$], (look at the two brakets which must be a coma). But if you ask for show(base[i]) for $i \in {0,..., 4}$ the return is correct. Now I have an other function :

def base_after_pivot(base, veb, vsb):
    #base = base
    #veb = variable entrant dans la base
    #vsb = variable sortant de la base
    hc=[sub.replace(vsb, veb) for sub in base]
    return hc

whose object is to change the name of the elements of the base. In the following context it works

base1=base_after_pivot(base, '$x_0$', '$a_{1}$')
show(base1)

gives the expected output (one more time seeming weird but correct) [,$𝚊⎯{𝟶}$,$𝚊⎯{𝟷}$,$\𝚟𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚘𝚗⎯{𝟺}$}}$𝚣$]. So now I try

base2=base_after_pivot(base, '$x_1$', '$\varepsilon_{4}$')
show(base2)

which doesn't change the base. I hope that some on will find my mistake.