On May 9, 3:19 pm, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i want to a little stringmanipulationa nd im looking into regexps. i
> couldnt find out how to do:
> s = 'poprorinoncoce'
> re.sub('$o$', '$', s)
> should result in 'prince'
>
> $ is obv the wrng character to use bu what i mean the pattern is
> "consonant o consonant" and should be replace by just "consonant".
> both consonants should be the same too.
> so mole would be mole
> mom would be m etc>>> import re >>> s = s = 'poprorinoncoce' >>> coc = re.compile(r"(.)o\1") >>> coc.sub(r'\1', s) 'prince' Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
