[Tutor] SUPER NEWB: basic search and replace

[Lanky Nibs]

I have a large volume of files to change so I need to
automate the search and replace. I'll be replacing
bits of text with other bits of text. This is working
for now but I'd like to know how a real programmer
would do it. The hard coded strings will eventually
come from a list. All sugestions welcome and
appreciated.

    #read all file lines into list and close
    allLines = fh.readlines()
    fh.close()
    
    #use split and join to replace a unique item
    chunk = allLines[0]
    splitChunk = chunk.split('xVAR1x')
    newChunk = 'my shoes fell off'.join(splitChunk)

	#write to a file
    file = open('test.html', 'w')
    for eachLine in newChunk:
    	print 'writing  line in text file'
    	file.write(eachLine)
    file.close()


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