> for l in
> open('/root/Desktop/project/chatlog_20060819_110043.xml.txt'):
>
> l=l.replace("Document", "DOC")
> fh.close()
>
> But it does not replace Document with Doc in the txt file
In addition to closing the file handle for the loop *within* the
loop, you're changing "l" (side note: a bad choice of names, as
in most fonts, it's difficult to visually discern from the number
"1"), but you're not writing it back out any place. One would do
something like
outfile = open('out.txt', 'w')
infile = open(filename)
for line in infile:
outfile.write(line.replace("Document", "DOC"))
outfile.close()
infile.close()
You could even let garbage collection take care of the file
handle for you:
outfile = open('out.txt', 'w')
for line in open(filename):
outfile.write(line.replace("Document", "DOC"))
outfile.close()
If needed, you can then move the 'out.txt' overtop of the
original file.
Or, you could just use
sed 's/Document/DOC/g' $FILENAME > out.txt
or with an accepting version, do it in-place with
sed -i 's/Document/DOC/g' $FILENAME
if you have sed available on your system.
Oh...and it doesn't look like your code is using regexps for
anything, despite the subject-line of your email :) I suspect
they'll come in later for the "replace the tags" portion you
mentioned, but that ain't in the code.
-tkc
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