Hello,
I am scanning a text file and replacing words with alternatives. My
difficulty is that all occurrences are replaced (even if they are part of
another word!)..
This is an example of what I have been using:
for line in fileinput.FileInput("test_file.txt",inplace=1):
> line = line.replace(original, new)
> print line,
> fileinput.close()
original and new are variables that have string values from functions..
original finds each word in a text file and old is a manipulated
replacement. Essentially, I would like to replace only the occurrence that
is currently selected-- not the rest. for example:
python is great, but my python knowledge is limited! regardless, I enjoy
> pythonprogramming
returns something like:
snake is great, but my snake knowledge is limited! regardless, I enjoy
> snakeprogramming
thanks so much!
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