On Jun 9, 11:19 pm, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article > <cb258e51-8c54-4b33-9b88-f23fc70a3...@z14g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, > > "504cr...@gmail.com" <504cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > By what method would a string be inserted at each instance of a RegEx > > match? > > > For example: > > > string = '123 abc 456 def 789 ghi' > > newstring = ' INSERT 123 abc INSERT 456 def INSERT 789 ghi' > > If you want to do what I think you are saying, you should be looking at the > join() string method. I'm thinking something along the lines of: > > groups = match_object.groups() > newstring = " INSERT ".join(groups)
Fast answer, Roy. Thanks. That would be a graceful solution if it works. I'll give it a try and post a solution. Meanwhile, I know there's a logical problem with the way I was concatenating strings in the iterator loop. Here's a single instance example of what I'm trying to do: >>> string = 'abc 123 def 456 ghi 789' >>> match = rePatt.search(string) >>> print string[0:match.start()] + 'INSERT ' + string[match.end():len(string)] abc INSERT def 456 ghi 789 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
