Replace text with value form dictionary (regexp)

**Mirko Zeibig** · Jul 18 '05, 08:58 AM

Re: Replace text with value form dictionary (regexp)

Jean-Pierre Bergamin said the following on 03/03/2004 03:09 PM:[color=blue]
> Hi there
>
> I want to implement a small templating system where values in angle brackets
> should be replaced by the corresponding dicitionary value ("foo {x} bar" ->
> "foo 10 bar");[/color]

Hm, why don't you just use the "normal" pyformat-replacements ala
"%(KEY)FORM AT":

print """
<html>
<head>
<title>%(title) s</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>%(title)s </h1>
I got %(amount)0.2f dollars
</body>
</html>
""" % { 'title': 'My account', 'amount': 3.5 }

Regards
Mirko
--

**Jean-Pierre Bergamin** · Jul 18 '05, 08:58 AM

Re: Replace text with value form dictionary (regexp)

Jean-Pierre Bergamin wrote:
[color=blue]
> I want to implement a small templating system where values in angle
> brackets should be replaced by the corresponding dicitionary value
> ("foo {x} bar" -> "foo 10 bar");
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> d = {}
>>>> d["x"] = 10
>>>> p = re.compile('{ ( [^}]* ) }', re.VERBOSE)
>>>> p.sub(r'd["\1"]','foo {x} bar')[/color][/color]
> 'foo d["x"] bar'
>
> How can I now put the actual value of d["x"] into the string 'foo
> d["x"] bar'?[/color]

I have this solution now:
import re

d = {}
d["x"] = 10
d["y"] = "20"

def repl(matchobj):
return str(d[matchobj.group( 2)])

p = re.compile('({ ([^}]*) })', re.VERBOSE)
print p.sub(repl, 'foo {x} bar {y} gugu')

Any better solutions?

Regards

James

**Scott David Daniels** · Jul 18 '05, 08:58 AM

Re: Replace text with value form dictionary (regexp)

Jean-Pierre Bergamin wrote:[color=blue]
>I want to implement a small templating system where values in angle
>brackets ...[/color]

If you can drop the angle brackets (which in this example even seem to
be braces) and switch to a single delimiter (such as '"' or '|'), you
could use some old magic that now works in 2.3 for normal vectors:
stride expressions.
[color=blue]
> I have this solution now:
> ... d = {}
> d["x"] = 10
> d["y"] = "20"
>[/color]
def repl(template, replace):
parts = template.split( '"')
if len(parts) & 1 == 0: # Expect odd rails if even posts
raise ValueError('Nee d an even number of quotes, not %d.'
% template.count( '"'))

parts[1::2] = [str(replace[word] for word in parts[1::2]]
return ''.join(parts)

repl('"x"+"y" is x+y.', d)

A string like 'This is x: "x' will accidentally replace the final x,
unless you leave the exception test in the code. If you add an
entry to your dictionary like: d[''] = '"', you can use doubled
quotes to indicate single quotes in the output.

d[''] = '"'
repl('"x"+"y" is ""x+y"".', d)

--
-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels@A cm.Org

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