Erik writes: > On 30/11/15 08:51, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: [- -] >> If you wish to, >> say, replace "spam" in your foo with "REDACTED" but leave it intact in >> "May the spammer be prosecuted", a regex might be attractive after all. > > But that's not what the OP said they wanted to do. They said > everything was very fixed - they did not want a general purpose human > language text processing solution ... ;)
Language processing is not what I had in mind here. Merely this, that there is some sort of word boundary, be it punctuation, whitespace, or an end of the string: >>> re.sub(r'\bspam\b', '****', 'spamalot spam') 'spamalot ****' That's not perfect either, but it's simple and might be somewhat proportional to the problem. A real solution should be aware of the actual structure of those lines, assuming they follow some defined syntax. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
