Editing a file 'In Place'

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3b97ed74.472037594 at news.demon.co.uk>,
Simon Foster <simon at uggs.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>I'm trying to write a simple piece of code to perform some batch edits
>on a text file.  So far I have:

import fileinput
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