re.sub do not replace portion of match

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Fri Oct 2 12:10:28 EDT 2009


J Wolfe <vorticitywolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to flag re.sub not to replace a portion of the string?
> 
> I have a very long string that I want to add two new line's to rather
> than one, but keep the value X:
> 
> string = "test........X.\n.today"  <-- note X is a value
> string = re.sub("test........X.\n.","test........X.\n\n.", string)
> 
> This just replaces X with the replacement string.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
> 

Have you tried reading the documentation?

http://www.python.org/doc/current/library/re.html#re.sub

> Backreferences, such as \6, are replaced with the substring matched by 
> group 6 in the pattern.

and more such options in the docs.



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