with open("app/shared/frontend/base.html", "r") as f: text = f.read() target = '{% include ["quick_create_modal.html", "shared/frontend/quick_create_modal.html"] ignore missing %}' replacement = target + '\n\n\n{% include ["manual_modal.html", "shared/frontend/manual_modal.html"] ignore missing %}' text = text.replace(target, replacement) with open("app/shared/frontend/base.html", "w") as f: f.write(text)