[Tutor] Regex parsing and writing to file

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Thu Oct 18 15:00:45 CEST 2007


jon vspython wrote:
> Cool! It works :-)
> 
> But I don't get it. Where is the redirection?

The fileinput module redirects stdout when you use inplace=1. See the 
section "Optional in-place filtering" here:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-fileinput.html

You can read the source to fileinput (Lib/fileinput.py) if you want to 
see the details of how this works.

Kent


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