... and by works, I mean works like I expect it to.
I'm writing my own cheesy config.ini parser because ConfigParser
doesn't preserve case or order of sections, or order of options w/in
sections.
What's confusing me is this:
If I try matching every line to one pattern at a time, all the
patterns that are supposed to match, actually match.
If I try to match every pattern to one line at a time, only one
pattern will match.
What am I not understanding about re.search?
Doesn't match properly:
<code>
# Iterate through each pattern for each line
for line in lines:
for pattern in patterns:
# Match each pattern to the current line
match = patterns[pattern].search(line)
if match:
"%s: %s" % (pattern, str(match.groups()) )
</code>
_Does_ match properly:
<code>
# Let's iterate through all the lines for each pattern
for pattern in pattern:
for line in lines:
# Match each pattern to the current line
match = patterns[pattern].search(line)
if match:
"%s: %s" % (pattern, str(match.groups()) )
</code>
Related code:
The whole src
http://pastebin.com/f63298772
regexen and delimiters (imported into whole src)
http://pastebin.com/f485ac180
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