Hi, I've got some text that looks like this:
Lorem [ipsum] dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut [labore] et [dolore] magna aliqua. and I want to make it look like this: Lorem {ipsum} dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut {labore} et {dolore} magna aliqua. (brackets replaced by braces). I can do that with Perl pretty easily: ~~~~ for (<>) { s/\[(.+?)\]/\{$1\}/g; print; } ~~~~ but am not able to figure out how to do it with Python. I start out trying something like: ~~~~ import re, sys withbracks = re.compile(r'\[(.+?)\]') for line in sys.stdin: mat = withbracks.search(line) if mat: # Well, this line has at least one. # Should be able to use withbracks.sub() # and mat.group() maybe ... ? line = withbracks.sub('{' + mat.group(0) + '}', line) # No, that's not working right. sys.stdout.write(line) ~~~~ but then am not sure where to go with that. How would you do it? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list