"Craig Ringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 08:52, Ross La Haye wrote: >> How can an and operator be emulated in regular expressions in Python?
Regular expressions are designed to define and detect repetition and alternatives. These are easily implemented with finite state machines. REs not meant for conjunction. 'And' can be done but, as I remember, only messily and slowly. The demonstration I once read was definitely theoretical, not practical. Python was designed for and logic (among everything else). If you want practical code, use it. if match1 and match2: do whatever. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
