>>> import SE
>>> Editor = SE.SE ('sleeping=dead sleeping.htm== sleeping<==')
>>> Editor ('This parrot <a href="sleeping.htm" target="new">is
sleeping</a>. Really, it is sleeping.'
'This parrot <a href="sleeping.htm" target="new">is sleeping</a>. Really, it
is dead.'
Or:
>>> Editor ( (name of htm file), (name of output file) )Usage: You make an explicit list of what you want and don't want after identifying the distinctions. I am currently trying to upload SE to the Cheese Shop which seems to be quite a procedure. So far I have only been successful uploading the description, but not the program. Gudidance welcome. In the interim I can send SE out individually by request. Regards Frederic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python To: <python-list@python.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:34 PM Subject: RegEx conditional search and replace > Sorry, yet another REGEX question. I've been struggling with trying to get > a regular expression to do the following example in Python: > > Search and replace all instances of "sleeping" with "dead". > > This parrot is sleeping. Really, it is sleeping. > to > This parrot is dead. Really, it is dead. > > > But not if part of a link or inside a link: > > This parrot <a href="sleeping.htm" target="new">is sleeping</a>. Really, it > is sleeping. > to > This parrot <a href="sleeping.htm" target="new">is sleeping</a>. Really, it > is dead. > > > This is the full extent of the "html" that would be seen in the text, the > rest of the page has already been processed. Luckily I can rely on the > formating always being consistent with the above example (the url will > normally by much longer in reality though). There may though be more than > one link present. > > I'm hoping to use this to implement the automatic addition of links to other > areas of a website based on keywords found in the text. > > I'm guessing this is a bit too much to ask for regex. If this is the case, > I'll add some more manual Python parsing to the string, but was hoping to > use it to learn more about regex. > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > > Martin > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
