AT wrote: > I am new to python and web2py framework. Need urgent help to match a > pattern in an string and replace the matched text. > > I've this string (basically an sql statement): > stmnt = 'SELECT taxpayer.id, > taxpayer.enc_name, > taxpayer.age, > taxpayer.occupation > FROM taxpayer WHERE (taxpayer.id IS NOT NULL);' > > The requirement is to replace it with this one: > r_stmnt = 'SELECT taxpayer.id, > decrypt(taxpayer.enc_name), > taxpayer.age, > taxpayer.occupation > FROM taxpayer WHERE (taxpayer.id IS NOT NULL);' > > Can somebody please help?
> The pattern is '%s.enc_%s', and after matching this pattern want to change > it to 'decrypt(%s.enc_%s)' after = re.compile(r"(\w+[.]enc_\w+)").sub(r"decrypt(\1)", before) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
