On 02/04/13 17:49, David Mitchell wrote:
How do I go through a text file, finding specific words/numbers/phrases and edit them to say different things? I do not want to edit the text file, I would rather open and read from the text file and write to a new file.
OK That's easy, you just write the old file to the new file with the changes in place.
I do NOT want to know how to replace a specific word with another every time it appears. There are some "OFF" 's that i would like to change to "ON" 's and some that I would like to change to "OPEN" for example.
OK so, instead of calling replace, you want to stop and ask the user for a replacement text? Is that the idea?
I am doing all this in Linux Fedora with gedit.
I don't know gedit but both vim and emacs have interactive replacement functions, maybe gedit has too. Both vi and emacs can create macros and you can auto run macros when you start the editor, so you could automate it all using those tools. But Python can work almost as easily (and probably the finished article will be faster)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Why don't you tell us how you think it should work? Its likely that all the bits you need are already available to you with a little thought. Research the string methods (and if you want to get (too) clever the re module too). (I'm assuming these files are short enough to read them all into memory as a single string? If not we need to get slightly smarter.) Try a solution and tell us where you get stuck. Even pseudo code if you aren't confident with real Python. If that's too hard at least try to produce a hypothetical user session showing us what you expect the program to look like in use. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
