Hello NG, probably this is a basic question, but I'm going crazy... I am unable to find an answer. Suppose that I have a file (that I called "Errors.txt") which contains these lines:
MULTIPLY 'PERMX' @PERMX1 1 34 1 20 1 6 / 'PERMX' @PERMX2 1 34 21 41 1 6 / 'PERMX' @PERMX3 1 34 1 20 7 14 / 'PERMX' @PERMX4 1 34 21 41 7 14 / 'PERMX' @PERMX5 1 34 1 20 15 26 / 'PERMX' @PERMX6 1 34 21 41 15 26 / 'PERMX' @PERMX7 1 34 1 20 27 28 / 'PERMX' @PERMX8 1 34 21 41 27 28 / 'PERMX' @PERMX9 1 34 1 20 29 34 / 'PERMX' @PERMX10 1 34 21 41 29 34 / 'PERMX' @PERMX11 1 34 1 20 35 42 / 'PERMX' @PERMX12 1 34 21 41 35 42 / 'PERMX' @PERMX13 1 34 1 20 43 53 / 'PERMX' @PERMX14 1 34 21 41 43 53 / 'PERMX' @PERMX15 1 34 1 20 54 61 / 'PERMX' @PERMX16 1 34 21 41 54 61 / / I would like to replace all the occurrencies of the "keywords" (beginning with the @ (AT) symbol) with some floating point value. As an example, this is what I do: # --- CODE BEGIN import re import string # Set Some Dummy Parameter Values parametervalues = range(1, 17) # Open And Read The File With Keywords fid = open("Errors.txt","rt") onread = fid.read() fid.close() # Find All Keywords Starting with @ (AT) regex = re.compile("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", re.IGNORECASE) keywords = regex.findall(onread) counter = 0 # Try To Replace The With Floats for keys in keywords: pars = parametervalues[counter] onread = string.replace(onread, keys, str(float(pars))) counter = counter + 1 # Write A New File With Replaced Values fid = open("Errors_2.txt","wt") fid.write(onread) fid.close() # --- CODE END Now, I you try to run this little script, you will see that for keywords starting from "@PERMX10", the replaced values are WRONG. I don't know why, Python replace only the "@PERMX1" leaving out the last char of the keyword (that are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ). These values are left in the file and I don't get the expected result. Does anyone have an explanation? What am I doing wrong? Thanks to you all for your help. Andrea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Message for the recipient only, if received in error, please notify the sender and read http://www.eni.it/disclaimer/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list