I am attempting to replace occurrences of '2' with a '1' that appear in a specific column in the text file, for every line in the text file. A line from the text file could look like "2,4,5,3,1". Here's my code for replacing any '1' in column 4:
with open("test.txt","r+") as file1:
position = 3
text1 = csv.reader(file1)
for line in file1:
index = line.find("1") // 2
data = list(line)
if index == position:
for i in range(5):
if data[i] == "1":
data[i] = 2
elif data[i] == "2":
data[i] = 1
print(data)
file1.write(str(data))
When I print data it leaves all the commas and empty space in. It also doesn't replace the correct values in the text file. I really don't have much of an idea to how I would replace specific numbers - my code is probably very bad. Any help will be appreciated.
