I figured I might give myself a little project to make my life at work easier, so here's what I want to do:
I have a large list of publication citations that are numbered. The numbers are simply typed in with the rest of the text. What I want to do is remove the numbers and then put bullets instead. Now, this alone would be easy enough, with a little Python and a little work by hand, but the real issue is that because of the way these citations were typed, there are often line breaks at the end of each line -- in other words, the person didn't just let the line flow to the next line, they manually pressed Enter. So inserting bullets at this point would put a bullet at each line break. So I need to remove the line breaks too, but of course not *all* of them because each reference still needs a line break between it. So I'm hoping I could get an idea or two for approaching this. I figure regular expressions will be needed, and maybe it would be good to remove the line breaks first and *not* remove a line break that comes before the numbers (because that would be the proper place for one), and then finally remove the numbers. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
