Python Mass Editor 0.61

Python Mass Editor is a Python module that implements a python mass editor class to process multiple files using Python code. The modification(s) is (are) shown on stdout as a diff output. One can then modify the target file(s) in place with the -w/--write option.

Usage

You probably will need to know the basics of the Python re module (regular expressions).

usage: massedit.py [-h] [-v] [-w] [-V] [-e EXPRESSIONS] file [file ...]

Python based mass file editor

positional arguments:
 file file to process with the expression. Modified in
 place.

optional arguments:
 -h, --help show this help message and exit
 -v, --version show program's version number and exit
 -w, --write modify target file(s) in place
 -V, --verbose increases log verbosity (can be specified multiple
 times)
 -e EXPRESSIONS, --expression EXPRESSIONS
 Python expressions to be applied on all files. Use the
 line variable to reference the current line.

example: massedit.py -e "re.sub('failIf', 'assertFalse', line)" test*.py

or if massedit is installed as a package (from pypi for instance) :

python -mmassedit -e "re.sub('assertEquals', 'assertEqual', line)" test_pre_python_33.py

Installation

Download massedit.py from http://github.com/elmotec/massedit or :

pip install massedit


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Requirements:

· Python

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added massedit.edit_files function to ease usage as library instead of as a command line tool (suggested by Maxim Veksler).