On Sep 27, 6:39 pm, "Mark Tolonen" <metolone+gm...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Junaid" <junu...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:0267bef9-9548-4c43-bcdf-b624350c8...@p23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com... > > >I want to do replacements in a utf-8 text file. example > > > f=open("test.txt","r") #this file is uft-8 encoded > > raw = f.read() > > txt = raw.decode("utf-8") > > You can use the codecs module to open and decode the file in one step > > > > > txt.replace{'English', ur'ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്') #replacing raw unicode string, > > but not working > > The replace method returns the altered string. It does not modify it in > place. You also should use Unicode strings for both the arguments (although > it doesn't matter in this case). Using a raw Unicode string is also > unnecessary in this case. > > txt = txt.replace(u'English', u'ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്') > > > f.write(txt) > > You opened the file for writing. You'll need to close the file and reopen > it for writing. > > > f.close() > > f.flush() > > Flush isn't required. close() will flush. > > Also to have text like ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് in a file you'll need to declare the > encoding of the file at the top and be sure to actually save the file in the > encoding. > > In summary: > > # coding: utf-8 > import codecs > f = codecs.open('test.txt','r','utf-8') > txt = f.read() > txt = txt.replace(u'English', u'ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്') > f.close() > f = codecs.open('test.txt','w','utf-8') > f.write(txt) > f.close() > > -Mark
thanx everyone for replying, I did as Mark suggested, and it worked :) thanx once more -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
