import sys import re import os def walk_on_files(dirpath): for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dirpath): for file in files: if file.endswith(".md"): full_path= os.path.join(root, file) f=open(full_path,"rU") print "checking file: " + full_path textFile=f.read() f.close() findStartCode(textFile,full_path) return def findStartCode(textFile,full_path): match = re.findall(r'@startDocuBlock\s*(\w+)', textFile) if match: for find in match: textToReplace=getTextFromSourceFile(find, full_path) def getTextFromSourceFile(searchText, full_path): f=open("allComments.txt", 'rU') s=f.read() match = re.search(r'@startDocuBlock\s+'+re.escape(searchText)+'(.+?)@endDocuBlock', s,re.DOTALL) if match: textExtracted = match.group(1) replaceText(textExtracted, full_path, searchText) def replaceText(text, pathOfFile, searchText): f=open(pathOfFile,"rU") if f: s=f.read() f.close() f=open(pathOfFile,'w') replaced=re.sub('@startDocuBlock\s+'+ searchText + "(?:\s+|$)",text,s) f.write(replaced) f.close() if __name__ == '__main__': path = ["Documentation/Books/Users"] for i in path: dirpath = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname( __file__ ), os.pardir,"ArangoDB/../../"+i)) walk_on_files(dirpath)