Parsing csh scripts with python

[gene tani]

Dave Benjamin wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, David Hirschfield wrote:
>
> > I need to be able to parse the script, modify some variable settings and
> > then write the script back out so that the only changes are the
> > variables I've modified (comments, ordering of statements, etc. must
> > remain the same).
> >
> > I looked at shlex, but I don't think it will do what I need.
>
> What about regular expressions?
>

probably overkill here, but you might want to look into one of python's
templating libs.  They make generating lots of "similar except for..."
code and markup relatively painless.