Andrew Robert wrote:
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> Wow!!..
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> That awesome!
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> My goal was not to make it a one-liner per-se..
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> I was simply trying to show the functionality I was trying to duplicate.
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> Boiling your one-liner down into a multi-line piece of code, I did:
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> #!c:\python24\python
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> import re,sys
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> a = open(r'e:\pycode\csums.txt','rb').readlines()
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> for line in a:
You probably want to open the file in text mode, not binary. You don't
have to read all the lines of the file, you can iterate reading one line
at a time. Combining these two changes, the above two lines consolidate to
for line in open(r'e:\pycode\csums.txt'):
> print re.sub(r'([^\w\s])', lambda s: '%%%2X' % ord(s.group()), line)
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>
> Breaking down the command, you appear to be calling an un-named function
> to act against any characters trapped by the regular expression.
>
> Not familiar with lamda :).
It is a way to make an anonymous function, occasionally abused to write
Python one-liners. You could just as well spell it out:
def hexify(match):
return ''%%%2X' % ord(match.group())
print re.sub(r'([^\w\s])', hexify, line)
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> The un-named function does in-place transformation of the character to
> the established hex value.
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>
> Does this sound right?
Yes.
Kent
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