[Tutor] how to change some words in a text file

Shashwat Anand anand.shashwat at gmail.com
Sun Mar 28 23:31:24 CEST 2010


>>> s = "I am a studaet."
>>> new_s = s[0:8] + 'ent'
>>> print new_s
I am a sent

You are using str as a variable, str is used to convert anything into string

>>> a  = 0
>>> b = str(a)
>>> type(b)
<type 'str'>


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Shurui Liu (Aaron Liu)
<shurui91 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Here's the thing, I wanna change some wrong words from a text file like
> this:
>
> "I am a studaet." -> "I am a student."
>
> I have tried to use this command:
> str = "I am a studaet."
> newstr = str[0:8] + "ent"
> print newstr
>
>
> But the system said     TypeError: 'type' object is unsubscriptable
>
> What's wrong?
>
> --
> Shurui Liu (Aaron Liu)
> Computer Science & Engineering Technology
> University of Toledo
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