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Replace a certain part of the string which matches a pattern in python 2.7 and save in the same file

I am trying to achieve something of this sort My input file has this kind of entries art.range.field = 100 art.net.cap = 200 art.net.ht = 1000 art.net.dep = 8000 I am trying to match the pattern like ...
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Removing part of a string between indices

I gotta write a function that when given a string, finds the first appearance of the substring 'not' and 'bad'. If the 'bad' follows the 'not',it replaces the whole 'not'...'bad' substring with 'good'....
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String Replacement Not Being Written to File

I need to edit a certain file for a DoE study. The file is in the format: 1 Wall1 roughness 0.0 velocity 0.0 temperature "temperature.file" ######## 2 Wall2 roughness 0.0 velocity 0.0 temperature "...
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Python 2.7 path replace string

I need to replace some string by others. I'm using function pathlib to do that it's working fine but I have a problem when there is two same string in my file and I need to change just one My file (...
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python replace string ignore new line

For example , str="dddabc d e xxxx 123 345" ,want to replace "abcde" with null . New str need to be "ddd xxxx 123 345" What is the easy way to do it ? If I drop the new line , the new string will ...
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How can I loop through a python dictionary and replace a substring value?

I want to loop through a dictionary with unknown keys and replace a specific substring value. mydict = { 'Getting links from: https://www.foo.com/': [ '+-BROKEN- http://www.broken....
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Replacing multiple strings in Python [duplicate]

I currently have the below Python code which works well:- caseURL = r"\\mydomain\abc\lp_t\GB\123456\Original Format" caseURL = caseURL.replace("lp_t", "lp_i") caseURL = caseURL.replace("Original ...
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How to replace a certain character from values of dicts in a list?

I am trying to replace a certain character from the given list but I am getting this error: AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'replace' How I can solve this problem? String=[{"id":"id1 ...
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How do I replace and update a string multiple times in Python?

I'm working on a quiz program and need some help. I'm trying to replace words one at a time, but Python isn't saving the previously replaced string. Here is a mini example of what I mean: ...
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Python replace function outputs different results

s="|0000011111111|" print s.replace(s[9:12],' ') ...output is |00000 11| s="|0000012345678|" print s.replace(s[9:12],' ') ...output is |00000123 78| I only want to replace s[9:12] to ...
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How to replace multiple strings with one string with downcase in python?

I need to write a function which replaces multiple format strings into downcase. For example, a paragraph contains a word 'something' in different formats like 'Something', 'SomeThing', 'SOMETHING', '...
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Replace multiple words in strings from a list of words in Python

I have a text file in the following format: this is some text __label__a this is another line __label__a __label__b this is third line __label__x this is fourth line __label__a __label__x __label__z ...
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Python 2.7.13/3.6.1 str.replace changes original string inconsistently [duplicate]

In the python 3 documentation, str.replace is described as: str.replace(old, new[, count]) Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the ...
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s.replace within a for loop behaves strangely

I wrote this to replace all 'b's within 'babble' except for the first one. s = 'babble' for i in range(1, len(s)): if s[i] == s[0]: t = s.replace(s[i],'$') print(t) this prints '$a$$le'...
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Replacing special characters in a string

i'm trying to unittest a python function, but it seems to not replace any of the chars inside the function. even though the function should be working? error message: E AssertionError: assert '...
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