[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I have a list of strings. And I want to find the subset which > matches a particular regular expression. > > import re > ll = ('a', 'b', 's1', 's2', '3s') > p = re.compile('^s.*') > newList = filter(lambda s: p.match(s), ll) > > I suppose there should be simple function to do this in re module. Is > there any? > > I searched google, but could not find one, may be for keywords were not > perfect. > > Thanks. > Suresh >
I think I'm having some network problems. I'll try again. Also the previous "attempt" had a typo (perhaps a freudian slip). ",".join(some_list). By the way, don't name your own objects with the names of built-in types, such as "list" or "str", etc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list