CSUIDL PROGRAMMEr wrote:
> folks
> I am new to python, so excuse me if i am asking stupid questions.
>From what I see, you seem to be new to programming in general !-)
> I have a txt file and here are some lines of it
>
> Document Keyword
> Keyword Keyword
> Keyword > Keyword Keyword Keyword
> for l in
> open('/root/Desktop/project/chatlog_20060819_110043.xml.txt'):
>
> l=l.replace("Document", "DOC")
> fh.close()
>
> But it does not replace Document with Doc in the txt file
In addition to closing the file handle for the loop *within* the
loop, you're changing "l" (s
You are opening the same file twice, reading its contents line-by-line
into memory, replacing "Document" with "Doc" *in memory*, never writing
that to disk, and then discarding the line you just read into memory.
If your file is short, you could read the entire thing into memory as
one string usin
folks
I am new to python, so excuse me if i am asking stupid questions.
I have a txt file and here are some lines of it
Document Keyword
Keyword Keyword
Keyword Keyword Keyword Keyword
Keyword Keyword Keywordhttp://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
