perl to python

[John Roth]

"Olivier Scalbert" <olivier.scalbert at algosyn.com> wrote in message
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> Hello ,
>
> What is the python way of doing this :
> perl -pi -e 's/string1/string2/' file
> ?
> Thanks
> Olivier

I'm not sure what the -pi and -e switches do, but the
rest is fairly simple, although not as simple as the perl
one-liner.

Just load the file into a string variable, and either
use the string .replace() method, or use a regx,
depending on which is appropriate. Then write
it back out.

from the python prompt (not the command prompt)
that's something like: (untested)

var = open("file", "r").read().replace("string1", "string2")
open("file", "w").write(var)

I think this is about as obfusticated as you can get -
you'll lose the file if you try for a one-liner.

John Roth