On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:00:59 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Francois, unless your regex can cross multiple lines it is better to > search files like this: > > with open(the_filename) as f: > for line in f: > ... search the line for the regexp ... > > That way you only need to keep one line at a time in memory.
That's what François is doing. > Importantly: > > os.rename(path, new_filename) > > The old name comes first, then the new name. Oops! I forgot about that. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
