Joan Miller wrote:
I would to convert the first string to upper case. But this regular
expression is not matching the first string between quotes.
re.sub("'(?P<id>\w+)': [^{]", "\g<id>FOO", str)
Well, my first thought is that you're not using raw strings, so
you're not using the regexps and replacements you think you are.
r"'(?P<id>\w+)': [^{]"
will match the lines of interest. The replacement will eat the
opening & closing single-quote, colon, and first character.
# string to non-matching
'foo': {
# strings to matching
'bar': 'bar2'
'bar': None
'bar': 0
'bar': True
So, i.e., from the first string I would to get:
'BAR': 'bar2'
I think you'd have to use a function/lambda to do the
case-conversion:
re.sub(
r"'(?P<id>\w+)(?=': [^{])",
lambda m: "'" + m.group('id').upper(),
string_of_interest
)
Or you could just forgo regexps and use regular string functions
like split(), startswith(), and upper()
-tkc
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