I seem to fall into this trap (maybe my Perl background) where I want to simultaneously test a regular expression and then extract its match groups in the same action. For instance:
if (match = re.search('(\w+)\s*(\w+)', foo)): field1 = match.group(1) field2 = match.group(2) ... (compare to Perl:) if($foo =~ /(\w+)\s*(\w+)/) { $field1 = $1; $field2 = $2; ... } Problem is, my python is invalid above. What's the pythonic way to do this? Thanks in advance O Python Charmers Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list