[Tutor] Iterating over a long list with regular expressions andchanging each item?
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Mon May 4 17:15:21 CEST 2009
"Dan Liang" <danliang20 at gmail.com> wrote
> def replaceTagging(source_name, target_name):
> source_file = file(source_name, 'r')
> source = source_file.read() # not really necessary
this reads the entire file as a string
> target_file = open(target_name, "w")
> # replacement loop
> for line in source:
this iterates over the characters in the string.
Remove the two source lines above and use
for line in open(source_name):
HTH,
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