Enhancement request: Support in-plce replace a-la sed

[adamatan]

I use pss extensively because I feel comfortable with Python's regex format, which I prefer over the one sed uses.

However, sed is extremely useful for recursive in-place regex replace.

Do you think it would be a good idea to add search-and-replace features to pss, using re.sub?

[eliben]

Nope, I never planned replacement features for pss because you could always xargs-combine it with sed. The design goal for pss is to be able to find source files easily without passing too many options to grep or find.

[adamatan]

Thanks. I'm using xargs extensively, but I have to re-write the regex in the sed format. Am I missing anything? Would you be open for a PR that implements the substitution, or would you prefer that I develop it separately?

[adamatan]

I've also asked if there's any workaround - Converting regular expression syntax from Python to POSIX

[eliben]

Feel free to develop it separately.

By the way, if the regexp conversion bothers you, you could use perl instead of sed