I have one old shell script which include sed command as below. The source data($Tmp) is a HTML table.
sed '/<table border/,/table>/d' $Tmp > $Out
Can someone help me to convert this command to Python script? I really can't figure out how to do that with regular expression. Many thanks..
Here's a simple implementation.
Briefly, it opens the file, iterates line by line and prints each line to the output. If it matches "<table border", delete flag set to True and following lines aren't printed to the output until it matches "table>".
import sys
f = open(sys.argv[1])
delete = False
for line in f:
if delete == False:
if "<table border" in line:
delete = True
if delete == False:
print line,
if delete == True:
if "table>" in line:
delete = False
re to search for a plain string within an other string is a bit overkill, a simple in would be enough.The script copys all lines from the input file to the output file, unless it finds a line containing <table border, then it deletes all lines until it finds /table> and continues writing all further lines.
So one possibility would be:
with open('in') as inf, open('out', 'w') as outf:
while True:
line = inf.readline()
if '<table border' in line:
while True:
line = inf.readline()
if not line or '/table>' in line:
line = inf.readline()
break
if not line:
break
outf.write(line)
import sys
with open(sys.argv[1]) as f:
for line in f:
if '<table border' in line:
for line in f:
if 'table>' in line:
break
else:
sys.stdout.write(line)
