I am writing a script in Python3 and I want to use regular expressions. I have some utf-8 encoded files used as configuration files for my main script.
I wish to change some lines on them (classic configuration changes).
My code ,still in poc condition, is this:
regex = re.compile('^SHOW_ALL\s[^:]')
with open('./config.txt', encoding='utf-8', mode='r+') as old_file:
for line in old_file.read():
if regex.match(line):
print(line)
and the config.txt is this:
#Κάτι στα ελληνικά
SHOW_ALL OFF 15
PRINT ON
SHOW_VALUES O
COM 0
PRINTER_NAME samsung_not_a_real_name
CAMERA 33
I checked my regular expression at pythex.org and it seems to work fine.
What could be going wrong?
*the link redirects to the exact regex and text I tried myself at regex.org
Try to replace old_file.read(); by old_file.readLines();