I am writing a script that will replace the word in the file with a user input. Script:

print "enter your text" newText = input("#") with open('test.txt', 'r') as f: old_data = f.read() new_data = old_data.replace('oldtext', (newText)) with open('test.txt', 'w') as f: f.write(new_data)

What's my mistake?

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  • What is the problem? What error message is displayed? - Alexshev92
  • TypeError: expected a string after another character buffer object after I enter any digit - user314586
  • Perhaps you should remove the parentheses: new_data = old_data.replace('oldtext', newText) - Alexshev92
  • I tried but the same error - user314586
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    Interesting .. try newText = raw_input("#") . In python2 input is eval(raw_input(prompt)) , so the result will be interpreted depending on the input, and in newText should be a line - gil9red

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Replace:

 newText = input("#")

on:

 newText = raw_input("#")

The reason is that input (prompt) is actually executed as eval(raw_input(prompt)) , because of this you can get not a string, but a different type