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On Dec 13, 9:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Dec 12, 3:10 pm, Hamish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Hey
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> > I'm new to python, but I have used a fair bit of C and Perl
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> > I found Perls regex's to be very easy to use however I don't find
> > Pythons regexes as good.
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> > All I am trying to do is detect if there is a number in a string.
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> > I am reading the string from an excel spread sheet using the xlrd
> > module
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> > then I would like to test if this string has a number in it
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> > ie.
> > import xlrd
> > import re
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> > doesHaveNumber = re.compile('[0-9]')
> > string1 = ABC 11
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> > regularExpressionCheck = doesHaveNumber.search(string1)
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> > This will get the right result but then I would like to use the result
> > in an IF statement and have not had much luck with it.
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> > if regularExpressionCheck != "None"
> > print "Something"
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> > the result is that it prints every line from the spreadsheet to output
> > but I only want the lines from the spreadsheet to output.
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> > Is there a way I can drop the regular expression module and just use
> > built in string processing?
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> > Why si the output from checks in teh re module either "None" or some
> > crazy memory address? Couldn't it be just true or false?
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> None isn't a string, None is a special object under Python. Functions
> that don't return anything actually return the None value. In a
> boolean context, None is false.
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> Python objects can be used in a boolean context, such as an if-
> statement. Empty sequences (such as tuples, strings, and lists),
> None, 0, and 0.0 are treated as False. Everything else is usually
> treated as "True". If a class defines a __len__ or __nonzero__
> method, those methods are called to determine if an instance is True
> or False. Otherwise, all objects are True.
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> There's also only one None object, so identity testing is the pythonic
> idiom for testing against None.
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> So, your check needs to be:
> if regularExpressionCheck is not None:
> print "Something"
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> or, even more simply:
> if regularExpressionCheck:
> print "Something"
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> I recommend that you peruse a Python tutorial or two. These are
> fairly basic attributes of the Python language. If you're using
> regular expressions, you'll want to be aware of how to make raw
> strings to help you out.
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> --Jason- Hide quoted text -
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