[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure how to change a string so that it matches another one. > > My application (using wxPython and SQLite3 via pysqlite2) needs to compare > a string selected from the database into a list of tuples with another > string selected in a display widget. > > An extract of the relevant code is: > > selName = self.polTree.GetItemText(selID) > ... > for item in self.appData.polNat: > print 'Item: ', item, '\n', 'selName: ', selName, '\n' > if item == selName: > print '***** ', self.appData.polNat[1] > > The last comparison and print statement never work because the strings are > presented this way: > > Item: (u'ground water',) > selName: ground water > > What do I need to do to 'Item' to strip the parentheses, unicode symbol, > single quotes, and comma? Do I want 'raw' output? If so, how do I specify > that in the line 'if item == selName:'? > > TIA, > > Rich
Assuming item is "(u'ground water',)" import re item = re.compile(r"\(u'([^']*)',\)").search(item).group(1) James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
