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What's the standard replacement for the obsolete grep module?
Thanks,
Alan Isaac

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 06:45 +0000, David Isaac wrote:
> What's the standard replacement for the obsolete grep module?

AFAIK there never was a "grep" module. There does, however exist a
deprecated "regex" module:

>>> import regex
__main__:1: DeprecationWarning: the regex module is deprecated; please
use the re module

"marduk" wrote:

>> What's the standard replacement for the obsolete grep module?
>
> AFAIK there never was a "grep" module. There does, however exist a
> deprecated "regex" module:

there was a "grep" module in 1.5.2 and earlier:

http://effbot.org/librarybook/grep.htm

but it was removed in 2.0 (or somewhere around that time).

the new RE package doesn't support all the RE syntax variants used by that
module, but if you're willing to update your patterns [1] to use the new syntax,
you can replace grep with some variation of:

import re, glob

def grep(pattern, *files):
search = re.compile(pattern).search
for file in files:
for index, line in enumerate(open(file)):
if search(line):
print ":".join((file, str(index+1), line[:-1]))

grep("grep", *glob.glob("*.py"))

(tweak as necessary)

</F>

1) to some extent, the reconvert module might be able to help you with the con-
version:

http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/...reconvert.html
http://effbot.org/librarybook/reconvert.htm

"Fredrik Lundh" <> wrote::
def grep(pattern, *files):
search = re.compile(pattern).search
for file in files:
for index, line in enumerate(open(file)):
if search(line):
print ":".join((file, str(index+1), line[:-1]))
grep("grep", *glob.glob("*.py"))


I was afraid the re module was the answer.
Use of enumerate is a nice idea.
Thanks.
Alan