Python replace not permanent

[openjoel]

So I'm new to python and this is my first little bigger application,
I'm trying to do some basic templating stuff and then sending it with cherrypy.

file = open("templates/index.html", 'r').read()
return file
this will print the html code in the browser.
Now the thing I want to do is replace $$title$$ with another value defined in the python file.
But I do not want it to be permanent, if you get what I mean.
I just want the variable file to contain the edited version.

Now how do I do that?

[kaivalagi]

The variable "file" is actually just a string, it is populated from the .read() method

So, if you want to replace something in it then it is a simple case of a string replace:


file = file.replace("abc","def")

You may want to read up on regular expressions though, as they might handle the replaces better in all cases...http://docs.python.org/library/re.html

[openjoel]

The variable "file" is actually just a string, it is populated from the .read() method

So, if you want to replace something in it then it is a simple case of a string replace:


file = file.replace("abc","def")

You may want to read up on regular expressions though, as they might handle the replaces better in all cases...http://docs.python.org/library/re.html

Thanks man! It worked perfect for my means! Now I just need to make it a bit more intelligent :)