I have the text file (input.txt)  *HEADING *NODE, NSET=ALLNODES    1,   0.000000e+00,   0.000000e+00,   0.000000e+00    2,   2.500000e-01,   0.000000e+00,   0.000000e+00 *ELEMENT, TYPE=S9R5, ELSET=EB1   ...   ...   ...   ...  **  * END OF FILE   My goal is replace all the lines between the lines (*ELEMENT, TYPE=S9R5, ELSET=EB1) and (**) with a new lines.  and keep the rest of the file unchanged. Any solution using: open('input.txt', 'w') as f1: would erase everything in the file and write the new two lines and this is not the thing I need.
I want to loop over the contents of a text file and do a search and replace on some lines and write the result back to the file. I could first load the whole file in memory and then write it back, but that probably is not the best way to do it.  What is the best way to do this, within the following code?  f = open(file) for line in f:     if line.contains('foo'):         newline = line.replace('foo', 'bar')         # how to write this newline back to the file
Einstein-Hilbert action as an effective field theory I have read the following statement:      "The Einstein-Hilbert action can be seen as an effective field theory: setting $g_{\mu\nu}= \eta_{\mu\nu}+h_{\mu\nu}$, one gets a free Lagrangian for the field $h_{\mu\nu}$ plus interactions."   Now, how is it possible to define all the interaction terms?  EDIT: I ask apologize if my statement was appeared unclear: I have created a  which is more precise; please don't continue to consider seriously this one. Deploy Community Builder audience page assignments with ant migration tool? How do I install .run files? Cold fusion is being mentioned a lot lately because of some new setup that apparently works. This is an unverified claim.  See for example:         ( of that last link in the Wayback Machine, given frequent  from that page.)   While we should give the scientific community time to evaluate the set up and eventually replicate the results, there is undoubtedly some skepticism that cold fusion would work at all, because the claim is quite extraordinary.  In the past, after Fleischmann and Pons announced their cold fusion results, in perfectly good faith, they were proven wrong by subsequent experiments.  What are the experimental realities that make Fleischmann and Pons style cold fusions experiments easy to get wrong?  Would the same risks apply to this new set up? $$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{k^{\ln k}}.$$  I have some problems with this sum, I have tried most of the common methods, such as the ratio/root test, integral test, etc. I do believe it looks like a problem easily solvable by a direct comparison with some p-series, however, I do not know how to formulate the inequality.   I did try using the common fact that $\ln(x) \ll x^p$ for large $x$ but that of course only bounds it from below with a convergent series saying nothing about ours. Also I tried rewriting the 'summand' as $e^{\ln(k^{\ln k})}=e^{\ln k \cdot \ln k}$ but this did not really yield anything.   Any answer or hint would be greatly appreciated. What are sentences like "the longer X, the more Y" called and can they be used in formal written English? What is the type of sentence exemplified below called? Is it appropriate to use it in a scientific paper and formal written English in general?     1. The more pronounced the variation, the   more the waste.      2. The more you give, the more you get.      3. The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. I'm self-studying Guillemin and Pollack, but I'm stuck on Problem 3 of section 2. It says that if $V$ is a vector subspace of $\mathbb{R}^N$, then $T_x(V)=V$ if $x\in V$.  If $x\in V$, then since $V$ is a manifold, there is a local parametrization $\phi: U\to V$ where $U$ is open in $\mathbb{R}^k$. Without loss of generality, we can require $\phi(0)=x$. Then $T_x(V)$ is defined to be the image of $d\phi_0$ on $\mathbb{R}^k$.   An arbitrary element of $T_x(V)$ looks like $$ d\phi_0(v)=\lim_{t\to 0}\frac{\phi(0+tv)-\phi(0)}{t}=\lim_{t\to 0}\frac{\phi(tv)-x}{t} $$  but this doesn't seem very useful to show $T_x(V)=V$. What is the right approach? Smart guides aren't smart TL:DR Smart guides aren't accurate - even though the snap, (end up causing more problems in the long run) is there a way to fix it?  Maybe there are some settings that I'm missing (need to be changed)    I use my smart guides all the time (and am overall pleased with them). I do have my issues with it, as explained here:  A lot of times, when I'm trying to make a bunch of triangles like this:    Done by making a triangle, cloning, flipping, rotating etc. Repeat until full  (Perfect) Snapping using Smart Guides    Ends up looking likebetween the triangles (Outline Mode)    Now I personally (with a strong attention to detail) will notice that there is something off after making just 1 or 2 triangles (Even before outline mode... strokes look oh so slightly thicker/off)   And then I check in outline mode... and sure enough:    Notice the line spaces (and this is in outline mode, so if I didn't notice it before, now it's sitting right in front of my nose)  The way I (seemingly) "fixed" the first image was by adding in a thick stroke outline so that masks out the difference, however, in a lot of my cases I don't want to have a stroke at all (and then you really notice the problems). 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My questions: Which interpretation seems most likely. Is the second case a regular language, if so, give a regular expression that recognizes it. Good color palette, usable for the color blind. I'm designing a chart right now, that will slowly have more items added to it. I'd like to create an list/order of colors for the items, that will be most usable for the color blind to differentiate between each item. Any ideas how/where to start? Which are the non Schengen countries that allow entry for Schengen visa holders? There are countries in the Balkan area that allow entry if you have a Schengen visa but am not able find a definite list of all those countries. Knowing that will save me getting a visa for all those countries when I do my mega Euro trip. Here is my situation: I know almost nothing about Perl but it is the only language available on a porting machine. I only have permissions to write in my local work area and not the Perl install location. 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