Replace and inserting strings within .txt files with the use of regex

[Νίκος]

On 10 Αύγ, 18:12, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Νίκος wrote:
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> > The ID number of each php page was contained in the old php code
> > within this string
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> > PageID = some_number
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> > So instead of create a new ID number for eaqch page i have to pull out
> > this number to store to the beginnign to the file as comment line,
> > because it has direct relationship with the mysql database as in
> > tracking the number of each webpage and finding the counter of it.
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> > # Grab the PageID contained within the php code and store it in id
> > variable
> > id = re.search( 'PageID = ', src_data )
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> > How to tell Python to Grab that number after 'PageID = ' string and to
> > store it in var id that a later use in the program?
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> If the part of the file you're trying to match look like this:
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>      PageID = 12
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> then the regex should look like this:
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>      PageID = (\d+)
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> and the code should look like this:
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>      page_id = re.search(r'PageID = (\d+)', src_data).group(1)
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> The page_id will, of course, be a string.
>

Thank you very much for helping me with the syntax.

> > also i made another changewould something like this work:
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> > ===============================
> > # open same php file for storing modified data
> > print ( 'writing to %s' % dest_f )
> > f = open(src_f, 'w')
> > f.write(src_data)
> > f.close()
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> > # rename edited .php file to .html extension
> > dst_f = src_f.replace('.php', '.html')
> > os.rename( src_f, dst_f )
> > ===============================
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> > Because instead of creating a new .html file and inserting the desired
> > data of the old php thus having two files(old php, and new html) i
> > decided to open the same php file for writing that data and then
> > rename it to html.
> > Would the above code work?
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> Why wouldn't it?

I though i was perhaps did something wrong with the code.

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for currdir, files, dirs in os.walk('d:\\test'):   # neither 'd:/test'
tracks the folder

	for f in files:

		if f.lower().endswith("php"):

			print currdir, files, dirs, f
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As you advised me in a previous post of yours i need to find out why
the converting code
although works for a single file doesn't for some reason enter folders
and subfolders to grab files form there to convert.

So as you said i should comment all other statements to  find out the
culprit in the above lines.

Well those lines are supposed to print current working folder and
files but when i run the above code it gives me nothing in response,
not even 'f'.

So does that mean that os.walk() method cannot enter the windows 7
folders?

* One more thing is that instead of trying to run the above script
form 'cli' wouldn't it better to run it as a cgi script and see the
results in the browser instead with the addition fo this line?

print ( "Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 \n" )

Or for some reason this has to be run from the shell to both
local(windows 7) and remote hosting (linux) servers?