I needed to convert some Python code to conform to PEP8 and PEP257. I had hundreds of test methods with camel-cased names. For example
def testParseInfoInvalidArgs(self):
def testParseInvalidArgs(self):
def testParseInvalidSubCommand(self):And I wanted the test method names to change to Python names. For example:
def test_parse_info_invalid_args(self):
def test_parse_invalid_args(self):
def test_parse_invalid_sub_command(self):I changed the method names using Sublime Text 3 with regex find and replace.
The match pattern I used was (def test.*)([A-Z]+) and the replace pattern was \1_\L\2. I just ran that global change repeatedly until it found no more matches.
A better match pattern might be (def test[^A-Z]*)([A-Z]+) because that would match "testACLwithSomething" and the replace pattern would convert "ACL" to "_acl"; the patterns in the previous paragraph would have generated "_a_c_l" over repeated executions.
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