Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required

2012-12-19 Thread MRAB
On 2012-12-19 14:11, Alexander Blinne wrote: Am 19.12.2012 14:41, schrieb AT: Thanks a million Can you recommend a good online book/tutorial on regular expr. in python? http://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html Another good resource is: http://www.regular-expressions.info/ -- http://mail.p

Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required

2012-12-19 Thread Alexander Blinne
Am 19.12.2012 14:41, schrieb AT: > Thanks a million > Can you recommend a good online book/tutorial on regular expr. in python? http://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required

2012-12-19 Thread AT
On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:16:18 UTC+5, Peter Otten wrote: > AT wrote: > > > > > I am new to python and web2py framework. Need urgent help to match a > > > pattern in an string and replace the matched text. > > > > > > I've this string (basically an sql statement): > > > stmnt = 'SE

Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required

2012-12-19 Thread Peter Otten
AT wrote: > I am new to python and web2py framework. Need urgent help to match a > pattern in an string and replace the matched text. > > I've this string (basically an sql statement): > stmnt = 'SELECT taxpayer.id, > taxpayer.enc_name, > taxpayer.age, > taxpayer.occup

Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required

2012-12-19 Thread AT
On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:27:19 UTC+5, Thomas Bach wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:42:26AM -0800, AT wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am new to python and web2py framework. Need urgent help to match a > > > pattern in an string and replace the matched text. > > > > > > > Well,

Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required

2012-12-19 Thread Thomas Bach
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:42:26AM -0800, AT wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to python and web2py framework. Need urgent help to match a > pattern in an string and replace the matched text. > Well, what about str.replace then? >>> 'egg, ham, tomato'.replace('ham', 'spam, ham, spam') 'egg, spam, ham,

Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required

2012-12-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:01:32 -0800, AT wrote: > I just wanted to change taxpayer.enc_name in stmnt to > decrypt(taxpayer.enc_name) > > hope it clarifies? Maybe. Does this help? lunch = "Bread, ham, cheese and tomato." # replace ham with spam offset = lunch.find('ham') if offset != -1: lunch

Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required

2012-12-19 Thread AT
On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 15:51:22 UTC+5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:42:26 -0800, AT wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am new to python and web2py framework. Need urgent help to match a > > > pattern in an string and replace the matched text. > > > > > > I've

Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required

2012-12-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:42:26 -0800, AT wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to python and web2py framework. Need urgent help to match a > pattern in an string and replace the matched text. > > I've this string (basically an sql statement): > > stmnt = 'SELECT taxpayer.id, > taxpayer.enc_name, >

Pattern-match & Replace - help required

2012-12-19 Thread AT
Hi, I am new to python and web2py framework. Need urgent help to match a pattern in an string and replace the matched text. I've this string (basically an sql statement): stmnt = 'SELECT taxpayer.id, taxpayer.enc_name, taxpayer.age, taxpayer.occupation FROM