"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now it works:
> rex = re.compile(r'(^.*username *=[^"]*")([^"]*)(".*$)')
> for line in fileinput.input(FILE, inplace=1):
> m = rex.match(line)
> if m is not None:
> line = "%s%s%s\n" % (m.group(1), new_name, m.group(3))
> print line
>
> But there is an extra line break after each line in FILE. Why is that?
Because print prints a newline after all the values you pass it.
> I tried to line = "%s%s%s" % (m.group(1), new_name, m.group(3)) but it
> turns out there are two extra line breaks after each line...
It's not clear what you mean by this. I would have expected this
change to solve the problem. Where do you get two extra newlines?
<mike
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