"perl -p -i -e" trick in Python?

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Wonjae,

> I read the comment of
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/277753.
> (Title : Find and replace string in all files in a directory)
> 
> "perl -p -i -e 's/change this/..to this/g'" trick looks handy.
> Does Python have a similar trick? Or, is there a shorter Python recipe for
> the given problem?
See the "fileinput" module.

HTH.
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