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On 2014-05-09 20:51, scottcabit@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   here is a snippet of code that opens a file (fn contains the path\name) and first tried to replace all endash, emdash etc characters with simple dash characters, before doing a search.
>    But the replaces are not having any effect. Obviously a syntax problem....wwhat silly thing am I doing wrong?
>
>    Thanks!
>
> fn = 'z:\Documentation\Software'
> def processdoc(fn,outfile):
>      fStr = open(fn, 'rb').read()
>      re.sub(b'&#x2012','-',fStr)
>      re.sub(b'&#x2013','-',fStr)
>      re.sub(b'&#x2014','-',fStr)
>      re.sub(b'&#x2015','-',fStr)
>      re.sub(b'&#x2E3A','-',fStr)
>      re.sub(b'&#x2E3B','-',fStr)
>      re.sub(b'&#x002D','-',fStr)
>      re.sub(b'&#x00AD','-',fStr)
>
re.sub _returns_ its result (strings are immutable).