On Mar 23, 8:21 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:27:49 -0700, sgharvey wrote: > > ... 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? > > That has nothing to do with `re.search` but how files work. A file has a > "current position marker" that is advanced at each iteration to the next > line in the file. When it is at the end, it stays there, so you can just > iterate *once* over an open file unless you rewind it with the `seek()` > method. > > That only works on "seekable" files and it's not a good idea anyway > because usually the files and the overhead of reading is greater than the > time to iterate over in memory data like the patterns. >
Unless the OP has changed the pastebin code since you read it, that's absolutely nothing to do with his problem -- his pastebin code slurps in the whole .ini file using file.readlines; it is not iterating over an open file. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
