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- #!/usr/bin/python2
- # Copyright 2014 Florian Philipp
- #
- # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- # You may obtain a copy of the License at
- #
- # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- #
- # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- # limitations under the License.
- import re
- def subxy(string, originals, replacements, flags = 0):
- """Replaces all occurrences of originals in string with replacements
- Each original will be replaced with the replacement of the same index
- Arguments:
- string -- str or unicode to search and replace
- originals -- iterable of strings to search for
- replacements -- sequence of strings to replace originals. Has to have the
- same length as originals
- flags -- regex flags. See re.compile. Only re.IGNORECASE is of real
- interest at the moment
- """
- escaped = [re.escape(orig) for orig in originals]
- inner_pattern = str.join(')|(', escaped)
- pattern = str.join('', ('(', inner_pattern, ')'))
- regex = re.compile(pattern, flags)
- def pick_replace(match):
- """Identifies the first matching group and selects that replacement"""
- groups = match.groups()
- nonempty = [index for index, group in enumerate(groups)
- if group is not None]
- return replacements[nonempty[0]]
- return re.sub(regex, pick_replace, string)
- def main():
- test_string = 'Foo bar baz quz bar'
- origs = ('bar', 'quz')
- repls = ('BAR', 'QUZ')
- replaced = subxy(test_string, origs, repls)
- print replaced
- if __name__ == '__main__':
- main()
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