On 2007-02-10, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assuming item is "(u'ground water',)" > > import re > item = re.compile(r"\(u'([^']*)',\)").search(item).group(1)
James, I solved the problem when some experimentation reminded me that 'item' is a list index and not a string variable. by changing the line to, if item[0] == selName: I get the matchs correctly. Now I need to extract the proper matching strings from the list of tuples, and I'm working on that. Many thanks, Rich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list