Kotlin Sam wrote: > I have spent so much time using sed and awk that I think that way. Now, > when I have to do some Python things, I am having to break out of my > sed-ness and awk-ness, and it is causing me problems. I'm trying. Honest! > > Here are the two things that I'm trying to do: > In sed, I can print every line between ^start to ^end by using > /^start/,/^end/p. It's quick, easy, and doesn't take much time. Is there > a way to do this easily in Python? > > Also, I frequently use something like s/^[A-Z]/~&/ to pre-pend a tilde > or some other string to the beginning of the matched string. I know how > to find the matched string, but I don't know how to change the beginning > of it while still keeping the matched part. > > If I were able to stay in the *nix environment for all my work, I could > do it with these tools and the beloved pipe(|), but that isn't my lot in > life. I would do it in Perl, but, frankly, it gives me headaches even
> looking at it. You can get gnu Windows versions of awk sed and most other suchlike goodies off the net ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
