Replacing Periods with Backspaces

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:26:56 -0300, Booter <colo.avs96 at gmail.com> escribió:

> I am trying to replace a series of periods in a sting with backspaces
> that way I can easily parse information from a Windows command.  the
> current statement I have for this is
>
> ***************************Statement************************************
> capture = re.sub('\.*', '\b', capture)

The * means "ZERO or more" occurrences - matching practically everywhere.
I think you want \.+ -- one or more occurrences of a literal period. To  
actually have a \ in the string, you have to write it as "\\.+" or r"\.+"

> ===Out Put===
> str: \bi\bp\bc\bo\bn\bf\bi\bg\b \b/\ba\bl\bl\b\n\b\n\bW\bi\bn\bd\bo\bw
> \bs\b \bI\bP\b \bC\bo\bn\bf\bi\bg\bu\br\ba\bt\bi\bo\bn\b\n\b\n\b \b \b
> ==============================END============================
>
> which paces a bunch of '\b' strings throughout the string (to me at
> random).  It sort of works if I use this command but I don't want
> there to be whitespace...

You want those \b, don't you? Just not everywhere...

> ===Out Put===
> str: ipconfig /all\n\nWindows IP Configuration\n\n   Host
> Name             : Triton\n   Primary Dns Suffix         :
> engrColoStateEDU\n   Node Type             : Hybrid\n   IP Routing
> Enabled        : No\n   WINS Proxy Enabled        : No\n   DNS Suffix
> Search List      : engrColoStateEDU
> \n                                       ColoStateEDU\n\nEthernet
> adapter Local Area Connection:\n\n   Connection-specific DNS
> Suffix   : \n   Description            : Realtek PCIe GBE Family
> Controller\n   Physical Address         : 00-24-1D-16-FF-28\n   DHCP
> Enabled           : No\n   Autoconfiguration Enabled     : Yes\n
> IPv4 Address           : 12982227254(Preferred) \n   Subnet
> Mask            : 2552552480\n   Default Gateway          :
> 129822241\n   DNS Servers            :
> 1298210378\n                                       1298210379\n
> NetBIOS over Tcpip        : Enabled\n\nTunnel adapter
> isatap{04FB4DF5-4B41-4058-A641-6965D13CCC06}:\n\n   Media
> State            : Media disconnected\n   Connection-specific DNS
> Suffix   ...
> ==============END================================

Except for the last '...' I don't see any '.' in that string to be  
replaced...

-- 
Gabriel Genellina