Programming question: How do I make a list of words to be replaced with some other words?

I know a tiny bit of python, so I would prefer the answer in python.





I'm trying to update the spelling of some old English documents by find and replace a list of old spellings with new spellings.Programming question: How do I make a list of words to be replaced with some other words?
My answer is based upon the assumption that there are some documents in a directory that has words that needs to be replaced. Providing you a replaceStringInFile function that takes the replace string, the string to be replaced and the file file path where the file is located.





漏# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-


漏# Python


漏


漏import os,sys


漏


漏mydir= '/Users/t/web'


漏


漏findStr='%26lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ';-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 FINAL//EN';%26gt;'


漏repStr='%26lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ';-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01


Transitional//EN';%26gt;'


漏


漏def replaceStringInFile(findStr,repStr,fileP鈥?br>

漏 ';replaces all findStr by repStr in file filePath';


漏 tempName=filePath+'~~~'


漏 input = open(filePath)


漏 output = open(tempName,'w')


漏


漏 for s in input:


漏 output.write(s.replace(findStr,repStr))


漏 output.close()


漏 input.close()


漏 os.rename(tempName,filePath)


漏 print filePath


漏


漏def myfun(dummy, dirr, filess):


漏 for child in filess:


漏 if '.html' == os.path.splitext(child)[1] and


漏os.path.isfile(dirr+'/'+child):


漏 replaceStringInFile(findStr,repStr,dirr+鈥?br>

漏os.path.walk(mydir, myfun, 3)