Regular Expression for pattern substitution

[Vibha Tripathi]

It'd be silly to write the code for it if it already
exists somewhere in the Python re or sre library
module:

I need to find and replace all strings in a text file
from a certain pattern to another pattern.

so for example if I see 'this(\D*)that' anywhere in
the file then I'd like to make is 'that(\D*)this'
where the middle part of the strings remains
unmodified.

Any suggestions?

Peace.
Vibha

PS. How do I avoid getting my email ID web-published
for this mailing list.?

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[Devan L]

re.replace.

I don't think there's any way to avoid it. Except maybe having an alias
email address or a fake one.

[George Sakkis]

"Deval L" wrote:

re.replace.
There isn't a re.replace; be careful when you reply to newbies.
"Vibha Tripathi" wrote:

It'd be silly to write the code for it if it already
exists somewhere in the Python re or sre library
module:

I need to find and replace all strings in a text file
from a certain pattern to another pattern.

so for example if I see 'this(\D*)that' anywhere in
the file then I'd like to make is 'that(\D*)this'
where the middle part of the strings remains
unmodified.

Any suggestions?

Peace.
Vibha
Fire up the interpreter and write:

import re
line = 'see this man with that woman holding this dog and that cat'
r = re.compile(r'this(\D*?)that')
r.sub(r'that\1this',line)

'see that man with this woman holding that dog and this cat'
George

[Devan L]

Hrm, thought it had one. Guess it would help if I actually used regular
expression for replacement.