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Subject:    Re: [Zope] Using RegEx in Script(Python)
From:       Steffen Hausmann <steffen () hausmann-family ! de>
Date:       2003-06-26 23:53:27
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:09:27AM +0200, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> I wanted to know if the above can be done? What I need is a function
> that replaces every character of a string, that is not in [a-zA-Z1-9]
> with an underscore. I want to use this to automatically create an
> Object-Id from a title, to create a new Object.
> 
> If this is not possible directly within a Script(Python), can it be done
> using an ExternalMethod? I suppose yes.

In order to use regular expressions in python you need to 'import re'.

After that you can use 'sub(pattern, repl, string[, count])' to
substitue a string.

For more information on regexps in python take a look at
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node99.html#l2h-732

MfG Steffen
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