Running python code meant for Notepad++ plugin independently

[maxtimbo]

Right, thanks, how do I define the file on which the replacements will run?

To my knowledge, a txt file open in this way runs within the python environment, thus not opening any external editors. I'm still a newbie myself. But I've been working on a project that deals with txt editing. It's been my experience that no external editors (notepad, notepad++, gedit, vim, etc.) opens when you run with open() as f:. Beyond that, what you're doing with the for loop, is beyond my knowledge. If I were you, I'd make a smaller test txt file and run some experiments before running it on the real thing.

Scratch that, I reread your post.

To define the file that you are editing, that is the part in the quotes. So think about it this way: with open("C:\\absolute\\path\\to\\file.txt") as f