Re: [2.5.1] Read each line from txt file, replace, and save?

2012-09-05 Thread Gilles
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:04:29 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: >If you process each line separately, there is no reason to read them all >at once. Use the file as an iterator directly. Since line is already a >string, there is no reason to copy it into a new string. Combining these >two changes with Ma

Re: [2.5.1] Read each line from txt file, replace, and save?

2012-09-02 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/2/2012 6:36 AM, Gilles wrote: On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:19:02 +0200, Gilles wrote: (snip) Found it: #rewrite lines to new file output = open('output.txt','w') for line in textlines: #edit each line line = "just a test" output.write("%s" % line) output.close() If y

Re: [2.5.1] Read each line from txt file, replace, and save?

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 02/09/2012 11:36, Gilles wrote: On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:19:02 +0200, Gilles wrote: (snip) Found it: #rewrite lines to new file output = open('output.txt','w') for line in textlines: #edit each line line = "just a test" output.write("%s" % line) output.close() IMH

Re: [2.5.1] Read each line from txt file, replace, and save?

2012-09-02 Thread Gilles
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:19:02 +0200, Gilles wrote: (snip) Found it: #rewrite lines to new file output = open('output.txt','w') for line in textlines: #edit each line line = "just a test" output.write("%s" % line) output.close() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

[2.5.1] Read each line from txt file, replace, and save?

2012-09-02 Thread Gilles
Hello This is a newbie question. I need to read a text file into a variable, loop through each line and use a regex to substitute some items within the line, and save the whole variable into a new text file. This triggers an error when I save the modified variable that contains all the lines: ==