Changing a line in a text file

Tue Apr 26 04:45:58 EDT 2005

On 4/25/05, Kirk Job Sluder <kirk at jobsluder.net> wrote:
> In addition, I would argue that editing a file in place using a
> non-interactive program is dangerous and bad practice in general.  By
> the time you find a bug in your edit script, the original is lost.  This
> is something I learned from bitter experience when I tried to be smart
> and make script-based edits over entire directories of html files.

See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/56037

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