import re


def _do_subst(node, subs):
    """
    Fetch the node contents and replace all instances of the keys with
    their values.  For example, if subs is
        {'%VERSION%': '1.2345', '%BASE%': 'MyProg', '%prefix%': '/bin'},
    then all instances of %VERSION% in the file will be replaced with
    1.2345 and so forth.
    """
    contents = node.get_text_contents()
    if not subs: return contents
    for (k,v) in subs:
        contents = re.sub(k, v, contents)
    return contents