[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)
or newList = [s for s in ll if p.match(s)] > I suppose there should be simple function to do this in re module. Is > there any? No. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list