Incessant Expressions

In my previous post, I was having some issues with a regex substitution in Python:

matchdate = re.compile(r’?P200[0-9]{5}’)
matchdate.sub(’CCYYMMDD’, ‘date’, count = 1)

However, I managed to get this working earlier in this week with a little refactoring (I also recoded the entire function it was enclosed in):

pattdate = re.compile(r’(?P200[0-9]{7})’)
fi = file.read()
newdate = pattdate.sub(thedate, fi)

My problem was that [...]

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