find and replace python file code example

Example 1: python find and replace string in file

# Read in the file
with open('file.txt', 'r') as file :
  filedata = file.read()

# Replace the target string
filedata = filedata.replace('ram', 'abcd')

# Write the file out again
with open('file.txt', 'w') as file:
  file.write(filedata)

Example 2: python replace string in file

#input file
fin = open("data.txt", "rt")
#output file to write the result to
fout = open("out.txt", "wt")
#for each line in the input file
for line in fin:
	#read replace the string and write to output file
	fout.write(line.replace('pyton', 'python'))
#close input and output files
fin.close()
fout.close()