Surgery Benefit Formatter

format.py

import fileinput	
import sys
import re

filename = sys.argv[1]

def benefitFormat(matchobj):
	print matchobj.group(0)
	return '[benefit name=\"' + matchobj.group(0).rstrip() + '\"'

with open(filename) as infile:
	with open(filename.replace('.txt', '')+"_formatted.txt", "w") as outfile:
		for i, line in enumerate(infile):
			print "Line %s: " % i
			#print line
			outfile.writelines(re.sub('([A-Za-z]+[A-Za-z/,\s18]+\s)+', benefitFormat, line, count=1))