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Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace.

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On 2015-11-30 02:40, Rob Hills wrote:
> A program I am writing at present does exactly this and I simply do
> multiple calls to string.replace (see below)
>
> On 30/11/15 10:31, Mr Zaug wrote:
>> I seem to be heading in this direction.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>> import re
>> from os.path import exists
>>
>> script, template_file = argv
>> print "Opening the template file..."
>>
>> with open (template_file, "r") as a_string:
>>     data=a_string.read().replace('BRAND', 'Fluxotine')
>
>          data=data.replace('STRING_2', 'New String 2')
>          data=data.replace('STRING_3', 'New String 3')
>
>> print(data)
>>
>> So now the challenge is to use the read().replace magic for multiple values.
>
> It's crude, but it works well for me!
>
You do need to watch out for matches that are part of something else.

For example, if you had this:

     template = "REPLACE_THIS but DONT_REPLACE_THIS"

and you did:

     result = template.replace("REPLACE_THIS", "Python")

you would get:

     "Python but DONT_Python"

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Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Mr Zaug <matthew.herzog@gmail.com> - 2015-11-28 13:45 -0800
  Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Mr Zaug <matthew.herzog@gmail.com> - 2015-11-28 14:04 -0800
  Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-29 00:07 +0100
    Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Mr Zaug <matthew.herzog@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 12:23 -0800
      Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-29 23:50 +0100
        Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Mr Zaug <matthew.herzog@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 17:28 -0800
          Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-30 10:14 +0100
            Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Mr Zaug <matthew.herzog@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 20:54 -0800
              Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-12-01 11:49 +0100
                Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Mr Zaug <matthew.herzog@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 05:18 -0800
                Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Mr Zaug <matthew.herzog@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 06:18 -0800
                Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-12-01 15:41 +0100
                Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Mr Zaug <matthew.herzog@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 07:21 -0800
                Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-12-01 16:43 +0100
                Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Mr Zaug <matthew.herzog@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 10:43 -0800
        Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Mr Zaug <matthew.herzog@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 18:31 -0800
          Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. Rob Hills <rhills@medimorphosis.com.au> - 2015-11-30 10:40 +0800
          Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-11-30 03:23 +0000

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