folks I am new to python, so excuse me if i am asking stupid questions. I have a txt file and here are some lines of it
Document<Keyword<date:2006-08-19> Keyword<time:11:00:43> Keyword<username:YOURBOTNICK> Keyword<data:localhost.localdomain> Keyword<logon:localhost.localdomain > Keyword<date:2006-08-19> Keyword<time:11:00:44> Keyword<sender:> Keyword<receiver:> Keyword<data::+iwx> Keyword<mode::+iwx I am writing a python program to replace the tags and word Document with Doc. Here is my python program #! /usr/local/bin/python import sys import string import re def replace(): filename='/root/Desktop/project/chatlog_20060819_110043.xml.txt' try: fh=open(filename,'r') except: print 'file not opened' sys.exit(1) for l in open('/root/Desktop/project/chatlog_20060819_110043.xml.txt'): l=l.replace("Document", "DOC") fh.close() if __name__=="__main__": replace() But it does not replace Document with Doc in the txt file Is there anything wrong i am doing thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list