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Regex Substitution

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The re.sub() tool (sub stands for substitution) evaluates a pattern and, for each valid match, it calls a method (or lambda).
The method is called for all matches and can be used to modify strings in different ways.
The re.sub() method returns the modified string as an output.

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Transformation of Strings

Code

import re

#Squaring numbers
def square(match):
    number = int(match.group(0))
    return str(number**2)

print re.sub(r"\d+", square, "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9")

Output

1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81


Replacements in Strings

Code

import re

html = """
<head>
<title>HTML</title>
</head>
<object type="application/x-flash" 
  data="your-file.swf" 
  width="0" height="0">
  <!-- <param name="movie"  value="your-file.swf" /> -->
  <param name="quality" value="high"/>
</object>
"""

print re.sub("(<!--.*?-->)", "", html) #remove comment

Output

<head>
<title>HTML</title>
</head>
<object type="application/x-flash" 
  data="your-file.swf" 
  width="0" height="0">

  <param name="quality" value="high"/>
</object>

Task

You are given a text of lines. The text contains && and || symbols.
Your task is to modify those symbols to the following:

&& → and
|| → or

Both && and || should have a space " " on both sides.

Input Format

The first line contains the integer, .
The next lines each contain a line of the text.

Constraints

Neither && nor || occur in the start or end of each line.

Output Format

Output the modified text.

Sample Input

11
a = 1;
b = input();

if a + b > 0 && a - b < 0:
    start()
elif a*b > 10 || a/b < 1:
    stop()
print set(list(a)) | set(list(b)) 
#Note do not change &&& or ||| or & or |
#Only change those '&&' which have space on both sides.
#Only change those '|| which have space on both sides.

Sample Output

a = 1;
b = input();

if a + b > 0 and a - b < 0:
    start()
elif a*b > 10 or a/b < 1:
    stop()
print set(list(a)) | set(list(b)) 
#Note do not change &&& or ||| or & or |
#Only change those '&&' which have space on both sides.
#Only change those '|| which have space on both sides.    

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Difficulty

Medium

Max Score

20

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