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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:27:19 +0100
From: Thomas Bach <thbach@students.uni-mainz.de>
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Subject: Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:42:26AM -0800, AT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to python and web2py framework. Need urgent help to match a
> pattern in an string and replace the matched text.
> 

Well, what about str.replace then?

>>> 'egg, ham, tomato'.replace('ham', 'spam, ham, spam')
'egg, spam, ham, spam, tomato'


If the pattern you want to match is more complicated, have a look at
the re module!

Regards,
	Thomas.