Implements a python mass editor class to process multiple files using Python code. The modification(s) is (are) shown on stdout as a diff output. One can then modify the target file(s) in place with the -i/--in-place option.
Warning
This tool is useful as far as it goes but it does rely on the python eval() function and does not check the code being executed. It is a major security risk and one should not use this tool in a production environment.
See Ned Batchelder's article for a thorough discussion of the dangers linked to eval() and ways to circumvent them. Note that None of the counter-measure suggested in the article are implemented at this time.
You probably will need to know the basics of the Python re module (regular expressions).
If massedit is installed as a package (from pypi for instance), one can interact with it as a command line tool :
python -m massedit -e "re.sub('assertEquals', 'assertEqual', line)" test.pyOr as a library (command line option above to be passed as kewyord arguments):
>>> import massedit
>>> filenames = ['massedit.py']
>>> massedit.edit_files(filenames, ["re.sub('Jerome', 'J.', line)"])Lastly, there is a convenient massedit.bat wrapper for Windows included in the distribution.
Download massedit.py from http://github.com/elmotec/massedit or :
pip install massedit- Add support for 3rd party tool (e.g. autopep8) to process the files.
- Add support for a file of expressions as an argument to allow multiple modification at once.
- Find a satisfactory way (ie. easy to use) to handle multiline regex as the current version works on a line by line basis.
- Add magic variables
linenoandfilenamein addition toline.
- I have a hard time practicing more than a few dialects of regular expressions.
- I need something portable to Windows without being bothered by eol.
- I believe Python is the ideal tool to build something more powerful than simple regex based substitutions.
I have been using runsed and checksed (from Unix Power Tools) for years and did not find a good substitute under Windows until I came across Graham Fawcett python recipe 437932 on ActiveState. It inspired me to write the massedit.
The core was fleshed up a little, and here we are. If you find it useful and enhance it please, do not forget to submit patches. Thanks!
If you are more interested in awk-like tool, you probably will find pyp a better alternative. This is certainly a more mature tool.
Licensed under the term of MIT License. See attached file LICENSE.txt.
- 0.66 (2013-07-14)
Fixed lost executable bit with -f option (thanks myint).
- 0.65 (2013-07-12)
Added -f option to execute code in a separate file/module. Added Travis continuous integration (thanks myint). Fixed python 2.7 support (thanks myint).
- 0.64 (2013-06-01)
Fixed setup.py so that massedit installs as a script. Fixed eol issues (thanks myint).
- 0.63 (2013-05-27)
Renamed to massedit. Previous version are still known as Python-Mass-Editor.
- 0.62 (2013-04-11)
Fixed bug that caused an EditorError to be raised when the result of the expression is an empty string.
- 0.61 (2012-07-06)
Added massedit.edit_files function to ease usage as library instead of as a command line tool (suggested by Maxim Veksler).
- 0.60 (2012-07-04)
Treats arguments as patterns rather than files to ease processing of multiple files in multiple subdirectories. Added -s (start directory) and -m (max depth) options.
- 0.52 (2012-06-05)
Upgraded for python 3. Still compatible with python 2.7.
- 0.51 (2012-05)
Initial release (Beta).
Steven Myint, https://github.com/myint