[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > code files? What's the regular expression for > locating a number with an arbitrary number of digits > seperated into an arbitrary number of blocks of an > arbitray number of digits with an arbitrary number > of whitespace characters between each block?
For a decimal integer (or octal) number, I'd use something similar to: r'\d[\d\s]+' This also gets trailing whitespace, but that shouldn't be much of a problem in most practical cases. Of course, just like today, it becomes a bit hairier if you also want to find hex, oct (to be 0o777 in the future), other future notations such as binary, floats, complex numbers, &c:-) -- but the simple fact that a [\d\s] is accepted where today only a \d would be, per se, would not contribute to that hair in any significant way, it seems to me. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list