[Tutor] substituting with a group

[Gregor Lingl]

for instance:

>>> import re
>>> s="(the quick (brown fox"
>>> p = re.compile('\((\w+)')
>>> p.sub(r'<\1>',s)
'<the> quick <brown> fox'
>>> 

... maybe there are more elegant ways.

Gregor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Tremblay" <phthenry@earthlink.net>
To: <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 6:35 AM
Subject: [Tutor] substituting with a group


> Given the following line:
> 
> {the quick {brown fox"
> 
> I want to produce the following line:
> 
> <the> quick <brown> fox
> 
> I know that in perl, you use an expression like this:
> 
> $string =~ s/\{(\w+)/<$1>/g;
> 
> In other words, I want to substitute using the group generated
> from the search. How do you do this in python?
> 
> (Core Python didn't give me any hint.)
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
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