hi... i m now updating an sql file old file contains lines insert into mobilebill values ('Apr 01, 03', 'OUT', '91804103253', 34, 3.2); insert into mobilebill values ('Apr 01, 03', 'OUT', '91806392475', 84, 5.2); insert into mobilebill values ('Apr 01, 03', 'OUT', '918317048193', 76, 7.6);
i want to replace Apr 01,03 with 2003-01-03 etc... and my script is ============ import re lines=open('mb.sql').readlines() #mb.sql contains the above lines months={} months['Jan']='01';months['Feb']='02';months['Mar']='03';months['Apr']='04' months['May']='05';months['Jun']='06';months['Jul']='07';months['Aug']='08' months['Sep']='09';months['Oct']='10';months['Nov']='11';months['Dec']='12' for line in lines: #print line inp=line cre2=re.search('.*(\w{3}\s+\d+\,\s+\d+).*',line) (month,day,year)=cre2.group(1).split(); cre3=re.compile(',') day=cre3.sub("",day) year='20'+year repstr=year+'-'+months[month]+'-'+day cre4=re.compile('.*(\w{3}\s+\d+\,\s+\d+).*') line=cre4.sub(repstr,line) print line ================= but the output is just 2003-01-04 and not insert into mobilebill values ('2003-01-04', 'OUT', '91804103253', 34, 3.2); help me in this regard, what did i do wrong... thanks and regards gowthaman B -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list