Oh. Crap, I knew it would be something simple, but honestly, I don't think that I would have gotten there. Thank you so much. Seriously saved me more grey hair.

Matthew Wood wrote:
re.sub(r'(\d+)x', r'\1*x', input_text)

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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Lang Hurst <l...@tharin.com <mailto:l...@tharin.com>> wrote:

    This is so trivial (or should be), but I can't figure it out.

    I'm trying to do what in vim is

    :s/\([0-9]\)x/\1*x/

    That is, "find a number followed by an x and put a "*" in between
    the number and the x"

    So, if the string is "6443x - 3", I'll get back "6443*x - 3"

    I won't write down all the things I've tried, but suffice it to
    say, nothing has done it.  I just found myself figuring out how to
    call sed and realized that this should be a one-liner in python
    too.  Any ideas?  I've read a lot of documentation, but I just
    can't figure it out.  Thanks.

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