I have a function that I am attempting to call from another file. I am attempting to replace a string using re.sub with another string. The problem is that the second string is a variable. When I get the output, it shows the variable name rather than the value. Is there any way to pass a variable into a regex?
If not, is there any other way to do this? I need to be able to dump the variable value into the replacement string. For what it's worth this is an XML file so I'm not afraid to use some sort of XML library but they look fairly complicated for a newbie like me. Also, this is py3.1.2 is that makes any difference. Thanks!!! ##################################################### import random import re import datetime def pop_time(some_string, start_time): global that_string rand_time = random.randint(0, 30) delta_time = datetime.timedelta(seconds=rand_time) for line in some_string: end_time = delta_time + start_time new_string = re.sub("thisstring", "thisstring\\end_time", some_string) start_time = end_time return new_string -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list