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-rw-r--r--win32/replace.py19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/win32/replace.py b/win32/replace.py
index ea75dafa5..a81bab942 100644
--- a/win32/replace.py
+++ b/win32/replace.py
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
#
# Simple utility script to manipulate
# certain types of strings in a file
-#
+
+# This can be used in various projects where
+# there is the need to replace strings in files,
+# and is copied from GLib's $(srcroot)/build/win32
+
# Author: Fan, Chun-wei
# Date: September 03, 2014
@@ -17,12 +21,19 @@ valid_actions = ['remove-prefix',
'replace-str',
'remove-str']
-def replace(src, dest, instring, outstring):
+def replace_multi(src, dest, replace_items):
with open(src, 'r') as s:
with open(dest, 'w') as d:
for line in s:
- i = line.replace(instring, outstring)
- d.write(i)
+ replace_dict = dict((re.escape(key), value) \
+ for key, value in replace_items.items())
+ replace_pattern = re.compile("|".join(replace_dict.keys()))
+ d.write(replace_pattern.sub(lambda m: \
+ replace_dict[re.escape(m.group(0))], line))
+
+def replace(src, dest, instring, outstring):
+ replace_item = {instring: outstring}
+ replace_multi(src, dest, replace_item)
def check_required_args(args, params):
for param in params: