John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am currently working my way through Jeffrey Friedl's book Mastering
> Regular Expressions. Great book apart from the fact it uses Perl for the
> examples.
>
> One particular expression that interests me is '$/ = ".\n"' which,
> rather than splitting a file into lines, splits on a period-newline
> boundary. Combined with Perl's 'while (<>)' construct this seems a great
> way to process the files I am interested in.
>
> Without wishing to start a flame war, is there a way to do this in Python?
>
> Regards, John
Something like this maybe?
import re
input_data = """I am currently working my way through Jeffrey Friedl's book
Mastering
Regular Expressions. Great book apart from the fact it uses Perl for the
examples.
One particular expression that interests me is '$/ = ".\\n"' which,
rather than splitting a file into lines, splits on a period-newline
boundary. Combined with Perl's 'while (<>)' construct this seems a great
way to process the files I am interested in.
Without wishing to start a flame war, is there a way to do this in Python?
"""
for para in re.split(r"\.\n", input_data):
print "para = %r" % para
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