Andrew Rekdal < wrote: > I hope posting is ok here for this question... > > I am attempting to extract the text from a CSS comment using 're' such as... > > string = "/* CSS comment /*" > exp = "[^(/*)].*[^(*/)] " > > p = re.compile(exp) > q = p.search(string) > r = q.group() > > print r > >>> CSS comment > > although this works to a degree... I know the within the brackets everything > is taken literally so the pattern > I am to negating is "(/*)". ie. includes the parenthesis. > > So my question is... > > Is there a way to negate a pattern that is more than on character long? eg. > where rather than saying if forward slash OR astrisk appear..negate. > > I would be saying if parenthesis AND asterisk appear in this order... negate > > > -- Andrew > >
Have you looked into this library: http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ May help you, if you are trying to achieve something. If your doing it as an exercise then I can not help you, I avoid regex like the plague (but thats just me). Hope this helps. Adonis Vargas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
