Hey .python first time poster here. I'm pretty good with python so far, but I keep needed a function in my program but not knowing how to build it. =( Here's the problem:
Imagine a html file full of 100's of these strings all mooshed together onto many lines; <!--"@@MARKER@@; id=ITEM"-->ITEM<br> Where the word 'MARKER' is a constant, it stay the same in each string and the word 'ITEM' is a random combination of ascii characters of an unknown length. So for example a: <!--"@@MARKER@@; id=CATFISH"-->CATFISH<br><h1>Text text text</ h1><!--"@@MARKER@@; id=SPAM"-->SPAM<br> and so on... What I need to do it replace each instance of the random letter with a constant and/or delete them. The file is a html file so the stuff inside of <!-- --> is ok to keep and I need that data to identify where the strings are in the file (it's full of other stuff too). I'm tired making a bruteforcer but with unknown length and 26 letters of the alphabet I gave up because it would take too long (it was something like; read file; if '@@MARKER@@; id="'+str(gen_string)+'"-- >"+sr(gen_string)+'<br>' in file then replace with '', but I'm paraphrasing code and it's not the best solution anyway). Just as a comparison in the Windows OS this seems easy to do when managing files, say for the file a-blah-b-blah.tmp where blah is an unknown you can use: del a-*-b-*.tmp to get rid of that file. But for python and a string in text file I don't have a clue. @_@ could someone please help me? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
