String find and replace

[Erik Max Francis]

hokiegal99 wrote:

> I hate to answer my own post, but I think I understand what I'm doing
> wrong. I'm finding and replacing 'this' with 'that' in the varible
> named
> mystr, not the actual files. So, how would I go about making the
> change
> to the actual files instead of a variable that contains their content?

Easy:

	inputFile = file(filename, 'r')
	data = inputFile.read()
	inputFile.close()
	data = data.replace(this, that)
	outputFile = file(filename, 'w')
	outputFile.write(data)
	outputFile.close()

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