HELP: String manipulation question from a newbie

[Alex]

There have been a couple of other posts that recommend using string, but
they don't address your requirement that only strings called URL be
changed.  You might want to try something like this untested code,
instead:

import re
text = what_you_do_to_get_the_text()

text = re.replace('(URL="[^"]*)body_([^"]*")', '\1\2', text)

You may have to fiddle with it a bit to get it to work, though.

Alex.

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