Hi, I'm writing a program with a large data stream to which modules can connect using regular expressions.
Now I'd like to not have to test all expressions every time I get a line, as most of the time, one of them having a match means none of the others can have so. But ofcource there are also cases where a regular expression can "contain" another expression, like in: "^strange line (\w+) and (\w+)$" and "^strange line (\w+) (?:.*?)$" in which case I'd like to first test the seccond and only if it mathces test the seccond. Do anybody know if such a test is possible? if exp0.contains(exp1): ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
