Le samedi 10 mai 2014 06:22:00 UTC+2, Rustom Mody a écrit : > On Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:21:04 AM UTC+5:30, scott...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > here is a snippet of code that opens a file (fn contains the path\name) > > and first tried to replace all endash, emdash etc characters with simple > > dash characters, before doing a search. > > > > > > But the replaces are not having any effect. Obviously a syntax > > problem....wwhat silly thing am I doing wrong? > > > > If you are using MS-Word use that, not python. > > > > Yeah it is possible to script MS with something like this > > http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/ > > [no experience myself!] > > but its probably not worth the headache for such a simple job. > > > > The VBA (or whatever is the modern equivalent) will be about as short and > simple > > as your attempted python and making it work will be far easier. > > > > I way I used to do it with Windows-98 Word. > > Start a macro > > Do a simple single search and replace by hand > > Close the macro > > Edit the macro (VBA version) > > Replace the single search-n-replace with all the many you require
========= That's a wise reommendation. Anyway, as Python may fail as soon as one uses an EM DASH or an EM DASH, I think it's not worth the effort to spend to much time with it. LibreOffice could be a solution. jmf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
