Software > Cheat Sheets > Python

• Opening a file
• Writing to a file
• Getting string position of regex matches within a string
• Split string into array (explode)
• Case-insensitive "in"

f=open("test.txt", "r")
for line in f:
	thisline = line.replace("\n","")
f.close()

f=open("test.txt", "w")
f.write("test text")
f.close()

thisline = 'a:2:{s:4:"foo";s:3:"bar";s:5:"label";s:10:"Choice "C"";}';
pattern = re.compile( r's:\b\d+\b:"' )
for str_pos in pattern.finditer(thisline):
	print str_pos.start(), str_pos.group()

your_string.split(your_separator)

if this_entry not in main_table:

if this_entry.lower() not in (each_main_entry.lower() for each_main_entry in main_table):