python: string.replace(..) won't work

Lucas Vogel lvogel@exponent.com
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:30:55 -0700


Holy cow! Talk about dumb mistakes. I need to catch the output from
string.replace into another variable. Sorry for the traffic, everyone. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucas Vogel 
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 12:54 PM
> To: plug1
> Subject: python: string.replace(..) won't work
> 
> 
> Could someone take a look at this and tell me what's wrong at 
> string.replace()?
> 
> #Begin code---------------------
> 
> import string, os, sys, re
> 
> fName = sys.argv[1]
> s1 = sys.argv[2]
> s2 = sys.argv[3]
> 
> f=open(fName,'rw')
> 
> s=f.read()
> 
> print "string.replace(" + `s` + ", " + `s1` + ", " + `s2` + ")"
> string.replace(s,s1,s2)
> 
> 
> print "s is now: " + `s` + "\n"
> 
> 
> #end code-----------------------
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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