How to find and replace multiple lines in text file?
If the file is large, you want to read
and write
one line at a time, so the whole thing isn't loaded into memory at once.
# create a dict of find keys and replace values
findlines = open('find.txt').read().split('\n')
replacelines = open('replace.txt').read().split('\n')
find_replace = dict(zip(findlines, replacelines))
with open('data.txt') as data:
with open('new_data.txt', 'w') as new_data:
for line in data:
for key in find_replace:
if key in line:
line = line.replace(key, find_replace[key])
new_data.write(line)
Edit: I changed the code to read().split('\n')
instead of readliens()
so \n
isn't included in the find and replace strings