Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.079 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.85; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'line:': 0.09; 'subject:files': 0.09; 'subject:script': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; '"_")': 0.16; 'cet': 0.16; 'newlines': 0.16; 'script,': 0.16; 'subject:txt': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'fine': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'to:2**1': 0.27; 'to:no real name:2**1': 0.29; 'skip:g 30': 0.30; 'subject:that': 0.31; 'txt': 0.31; 'worked': 0.33; 'etc': 0.35; 'skip:> 10': 0.36; 'charset:us- ascii': 0.36; 'skip:- 20': 0.37; 'nov': 0.38; 'skip:[ 10': 0.38; 'received:98.137': 0.60; 'break': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'to:addr:gmail.com': 0.65; 'received:gq1.yahoo.com': 0.68; 'received:mail.gq1.yahoo.com': 0.68; 'received:98.136': 0.69; 'million': 0.74; 'no:': 0.84; 'received:bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com': 0.84; 'subject:find': 0.84; 'syed': 0.84; '|house': 0.84 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 741299.10369.bm@omp1048.mail.gq1.yahoo.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1415573903; bh=+8IEfoyHv9Abq86k8NMHmDs5HBq6TLPYClxjiYeTu3A=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=FY1dsOxBLLMbCzTSn/vNyl4U1wSQMkP/1v3TFdV7WOUpvhr1Kxh0DjVbKtKMpbDOoN7Ow7GKV9adMAI3StqlDHpLdZNydCIEFXdYWXSTwJjiuEObinDjgd2j/RZ6ypYVjYE5kSGRib143MquZTrpHwSB7afYj+KvJCZECHsZxWs= X-YMail-OSG: IaxUX.YVM1lW1EI8iZonJWxhHXWK6l_hoUk2aQMkwj36eG3 0hg5Hp.kcMLR9NodtBULqvOQlbF9.uxalGxgUBb9cLkdCMDiEI7relK06C8b nRtDCUEeXzoPkGG9K489S_zpxVij0rISoZfOHHZOALIBBq2Qc_zf6F2zF6St voOcuWX6P7mQlfcSrufePy9JoEqY7QBzrcs8X3c8zNqa.NYsgjeCd1VZFCth XiRgscdiSaBzUxhT1bfHcI9cf8CIZhtkt2RTj1QYzCDWZA.jbAPQdIoDldoF T8HU1rufhVNlHjbToqoBYPDIM1X1HDZRVia71fPaes_E30bNeJzHc2CB6mKr .neMQgi1JJ1DHzr.sPtdYAITRD.BdJNJTwkdDCMyZFwJrmxdZfxs6tN_NQ37 scqz9VT2DOxhKMa.cZFO1wMl1E4s51cnQKV2ODizk3Sfpw_EV20TtOUE1jKJ w6BH_7zxXCjXlsKgThFDTWVCn7aqPL9bp3RpqYoe3MfIHveDlctOzMxn3Vdn GrEOTQpbvwUWvgfEZWEC4rDqd0qokiwJGFBHH1U_LLK..eJnTyu4B0c2Idg- - X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 002.001, Ci0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0NCk9uIFN1biwgTm92IDksIDIwMTQgMTA6NTEgUE0gQ0VUIFN5ZWQgS2hhbGlkIHdyb3RlOg0KDQo.QWxiZXJ0LA0KPg0KPlRoYW5rcyBhIG1pbGxpb24gZm9yIHNjcmlwdCwNCj4NCj5JdCB3b3JrZWQgZmluZSBhZnRlciBJIGNsb3NlZCB0aGUgYnJhY2tldC4NCj4NCj4NCj5pbXBvcnQgZ2xvYiwgY29kZWNzLCByZSwgb3MNCj4NCj5yZWdleCA9IHJlLmNvbXBpbGUociJBZ2U6IHxTZXg6IHxIb3VzZSBObzogICIpICMgZXRjIGV0Yw0KPg0KPmZvciB0eHQgaW4BMAEBAQE- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.203.733 Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 14:58:23 -0800 From: Albert-Jan Roskam Subject: Re: Python script that does batch find and replace in txt files To: khalidness@gmail.com, tameemsmiles@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1415574059 news.xs4all.nl 2862 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59477 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:80446 ---------------------------- On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 10:51 PM CET Syed Khalid wrote: >Albert, > >Thanks a million for script, > >It worked fine after I closed the bracket. > > >import glob, codecs, re, os > >regex = re.compile(r"Age: |Sex: |House No: ") # etc etc > >for txt in glob.glob("D:/Python/source/*.txt"): > with codecs.open(txt, encoding="utf-8") as f: > oldlines = f.readlines() > for i, line in enumerate(oldlines): > if "Elector's Name:" in line: > break > newlines = [regex.sub(", line).strip().replace("-", "_") for line in >oldlines[i:]] You're welcome newlines = [regex.sub("", line).strip().replace("-", "_") for line in oldlines[i:] if line.strip()]