>-----Original Message----- >From: Python-list [mailto:python-list- >bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On Behalf Of Syed Khalid >Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 1:08 PM >To: python-list@python.org >Subject: Re: Python script that does batch find and replace in txt files > >My Script, > >I have added > >import glob, codecs, re, os > >regex = re.compile(r"Age: |Sex: |House No: ") # etc etc Script I >executed in EditRocket : > >for txt in glob.glob("/D:/Python/source/*.txt"): > with codecs.open(txt, encoding="utf-8") as f: > oldlines = f.readlines() > for i, line in enumerate(oldlines): > if "Contact's Name:" in line: > break > newlines = [regex.sub("", line).strip().replace("-", "_") for line >in oldlines[i:] > with codecs.open(txt + "_out.txt", "wb", encoding="utf-8") as w: > w.write(os.linesep.join(newlines)) >
To my young eyes, it looks like you are missing a ] at the end of the line before the with. > >Error Message : > > File "EamClean.log", line 12 > with codecs.open(txt + "_out.txt", "wb", encoding="utf-8") as w: > ^ >SyntaxError: invalid syntax > >Kindly do the needful > > > >-- >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
