On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:36 PM, skunkwerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm quite puzzled by this... I have a line of code that is supposed to
> strip a variable of any non-alphanumeric characters (such as
> whitespace):
>
> in my python shell, this works fine:
> >>>key4cache = '!yahoo'
> >>>re.sub(r"[^A-Za-z0-9]", "",key4cache)
> 'yahoo'
>
> in django, however:
> logger.debug('key4cache b4:' + key4cache)
> re.sub(r"[^A-Za-z0-9]", "",str(key4cache))
> logger.debug('key4cache after:' + key4cache)
>
> 2008-05-23 18:22:53,325 DEBUG key4cache b4:!yahoo
> 2008-05-23 18:22:53,324 DEBUG key4cache after:!yahoo
>
> no change.
>
> any ideas?
>
re.sub() returns the new string, but you are not saving/assigning the return
value.
Karen
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