Translating Perl to Python

Question

I found this Perl script while migrating my SQLite database to mysql

I was wondering (since I don\'t know Perl) how could one rewrite this in Python?

Bonus point

Answer 1

Alex Martelli's solution above works good, but needs some fixes and additions:

In the lines using regular expression substitution, the insertion of the matched groups must be double-escaped OR the replacement string must be prefixed with r to mark is as regular expression:

line = re.sub(r"([^'])'t'(.)", "\\1THIS_IS_TRUE\\2", line)

or

line = re.sub(r"([^'])'f'(.)", r"\1THIS_IS_FALSE\2", line)

Also, this line should be added before print:

line = line.replace('AUTOINCREMENT', 'AUTO_INCREMENT')

Last, the column names in create statements should be backticks in MySQL. Add this in line 15:

  sub = sub.replace('"','`')

Here's the complete script with modifications:

import re, fileinput

def main():
  for line in fileinput.input():
    process = False
    for nope in ('BEGIN TRANSACTION','COMMIT',
                 'sqlite_sequence','CREATE UNIQUE INDEX'):
      if nope in line: break
    else:
      process = True
    if not process: continue
    m = re.search('CREATE TABLE "([a-z_]*)"(.*)', line)
    if m:
      name, sub = m.groups()
      sub = sub.replace('"','`')
      line = '''DROP TABLE IF EXISTS %(name)s;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS %(name)s%(sub)s
'''
      line = line % dict(name=name, sub=sub)
    else:
      m = re.search('INSERT INTO "([a-z_]*)"(.*)', line)
      if m:
        line = 'INSERT INTO %s%s\n' % m.groups()
        line = line.replace('"', r'\"')
        line = line.replace('"', "'")
    line = re.sub(r"([^'])'t'(.)", "\\1THIS_IS_TRUE\\2", line)
    line = line.replace('THIS_IS_TRUE', '1')
    line = re.sub(r"([^'])'f'(.)", "\\1THIS_IS_FALSE\\2", line)
    line = line.replace('THIS_IS_FALSE', '0')
    line = line.replace('AUTOINCREMENT', 'AUTO_INCREMENT')
    if re.search('^CREATE INDEX', line):
        line = line.replace('"','`')
    print line,

main()