Re: How to modify a file 'in place' ?

There is a module in the library called fileinput, should do what you're looking for. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?

pyparsing is the far and away the easiest general purpose parser out there that I've encountered; BNF-style grammar parsing is a *pleasure* with pyparsing. And it all comes in a single pure python module to boot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list