Hi, I'm new to Python (and admittedly not a very good programmer) and I've come across a scenario where I've to search and replace text in a file.
For the sake of an example, I'm searching for every occurence of the text [[http://www.hotmail.com -> Hotmail]] I've to replace it with [http://www.hotmail.com Hotmail] I've come up with following scheme p=re.compile(r'\[\[') q=re.compile(r'->') p.sub('[',txt) q.sub('\b',txt) Give that I don't have very strong RegEX background, this doesn't look very elegant. Is there some other way I can accomplish the same thing? Moreover, please note that I'm using 'p' and 'q' for two regex and then calling 'sub()' on both p and q. Can't I just do that by employing one RegEx and then calling sub() only once? Please enlighten me. Thanks in advance. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
