replacing words in HTML file

[Iain King]

On Apr 29, 10:38 am, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin... at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> > | > Any idea how I can replace words in a html file? Meaning only the
> > | > content will get replace while the html tags, javascript, & css are
> > | > remain untouch.
> > |
> > | I'm not sure what you tried and what you haven't but as a first trial
> > | you might want to
> > |
> > | <untested>
> > |
> > | f = open( 'new.html', 'w' )
> > | f.write( open( 'index.html' ).read( ).replace( 'replace-this', 'with-that'
> > ) )
> > | f.close( )
> > |
> > | </untested>
>
> > If 'replace-this' occurs inside the javascript etc or happens to be an
> > HTML tag name, it will get mangled. The OP didn't want that.
>
> Correct, that is why I started with "I'm not sure what you tried and
> what you haven't but as a first trial you might". For instance if the
> OP wants to replace words which he knows are not in javascript and/or
> css and he knows that these words are also not in html attribute
> names/values, etc, etc, then the above approach would work, in which
> case BeautifulSoup is a gigantic overkill. The OP needs to specify
> more clearly what he wants, before really useful advice can be given.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>

Funny, everyone else understood what the OP meant, and useful advice
was given.