perl -pi.bak -e equivalent

[Caj Zell]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deetsNOSPAM at web.de> wrote in message news:<cnngpb$qtm$05$3 at news.t-online.com>...
> Caj Zell wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am looking a little bit at python and am curious of one thing I
> > often use in perl. Suppose, I want to change the string
> > "best_composer" to "Zappa" in a document called facts.txt, then in
> > perl I would do
> > 
> > perl -pi.bak  -e "s/best_composer/Zappa/;" facts.txt
> > 
> > Can I do that with python from the command line so easily?
> 
> Short answer: No. Perl is designed for this kind of stuff. Python won't
> catch up in that field, for various reasons. There have been plenty of
> discussions on the subject of one-liners in python - googl.groups will show
> you to them. 


OK, I did some googling on "perl command line -e python equivalent"
and various combinations, but didn't think of the obvious "perl
one-liner python equivalent" your answer implies. With that I want to
say that I did try before posting here.

Nice to see noone challenges the musical meaning of my search and
replace example, seems like you pythoners have pretty good taste.

Caj Zell