"perl -p -i -e" trick in Python?

[Wonjae Lee]

I read the comment of
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/277753.
(Title : Find and replace string in all files in a directory)

"perl -p -i -e 's/change this/..to this/g'" trick looks handy.
Does Python have a similar trick? Or, is there a shorter Python recipe for
the given problem?

[Stephen Thorne]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:18:57 +0900, Wonjae Lee <sh********@hot mail.com> wrote:

I read the comment of
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/277753.
(Title : Find and replace string in all files in a directory)

"perl -p -i -e 's/change this/..to this/g'" trick looks handy.
Does Python have a similar trick? Or, is there a shorter Python recipe for
the given problem?

sure.

python -c 'import os; os.system("sed -i s/change this/...tothis/g")'

Using-the-right-tool-for-the-job-ly-y'rs
Stephen

[Jack Diederich]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:38:03PM +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote:

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:18:57 +0900, Wonjae Lee <sh********@hot mail.com> wrote:

I read the comment of
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/277753.
(Title : Find and replace string in all files in a directory)

"perl -p -i -e 's/change this/..to this/g'" trick looks handy.
Does Python have a similar trick? Or, is there a shorter Python recipe for
the given problem?

sure.

python -c 'import os; os.system("sed -i s/change this/...tothis/g")'

You beat me to it, but you can cut a few more characters out of that.

/tmp/> python
Python 2.3.4 (#2, Jan 5 2005, 08:24:51)
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.

^D

/tmp/> sed -i 's/change this/...tothis/g'
-Jack

[Jeremy Bowers]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:18:57 +0900, Wonjae Lee wrote:

I read the comment of
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/277753.
(Title : Find and replace string in all files in a directory)

"perl -p -i -e 's/change this/..to this/g'" trick looks handy.
Does Python have a similar trick? Or, is there a shorter Python recipe for
the given problem?

As a Python lover... I still tend to use "perl -pi -e", except in rare
cases where I either can't deal with or don't want to deal with the
necessary escaping, in which case I write a quick perl script like this
(just did this today):

#!/usr/bin/perl
$source = join "", <>;
$source =~ s/\"\"\".*?\"\ "\"[ \n]*//gs;
print $source;

While a Python-golf contest might be able to beat that (although,
truthfully, to match this feature for feature I'd be surprised... that <>
is a substantial whack of code to fully emulate and I use this both as a
pipe and by feeding it a long list of files as arguments), I still
couldn't have written it as quickly.

Upshot is, perl is good for something, and when I'm not doing the job I
have working with perl, I'll still reach for perl -pi -e without shame.
Well, actually, only with the shame that I really need to lookup the
command to save backups and start using it. ("man perlrun"... I know where
to find it, I just need to add it to muscle memory!) Much longer than this
though and I drop the perl and run away, if possible.

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:44:40 -0500, rumours say that Jack Diederich
<ja**@performan cedrivers.com> might have written:

/tmp/> python
Python 2.3.4 (#2, Jan 5 2005, 08:24:51)
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.

^D

"Instant porting of any program to python". Smooth.
--
TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best.
"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958)
I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Wonjae,

I read the comment of
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/277753.
(Title : Find and replace string in all files in a directory)

"perl -p -i -e 's/change this/..to this/g'" trick looks handy.
Does Python have a similar trick? Or, is there a shorter Python recipe for
the given problem?

See the "fileinput" module.

HTH.
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Miki Tebeka <mi*********@zo ran.com>
http://tebeka.bizhat.com
The only difference between children and adults is the price of the toys

[Bart van Deenen]

Jack Diederich <ja**@performan cedrivers.com> wrote:

/tmp/> python
Python 2.3.4 (#2, Jan 5 2005, 08:24:51)
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.

^D

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Bart