On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:42 +0000, james_027 wrote: > hi, > > how do I regex that could check on any of the value that match any one > of these ... 'jan', 'feb', 'mar', 'apr', 'may', 'jun', 'jul', 'aug', > 'sep', 'oct', 'nov', 'dec'
Why regex? You can simply check if the given value is contained in the set of allowed values: >>> s = set(['jan', 'feb', 'mar', 'apr', 'may', 'jun', 'jul', 'aug', 'sep', 'oct', 'nov', 'dec']) >>> 'jan' in s True >>> 'spam' in s False HTH, -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
