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| From | Rob Hills <rhills@medimorphosis.com.au> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Generate config file from template using Python search and replace. |
| Date | 2015-11-30 10:40 +0800 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.15.1448851235.14615.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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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!
--
Rob Hills
Waikiki, Western Australia
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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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