Maybe you want r'\b'. From 'pydoc sre': \b Matches the empty string, but only at the start or end of a word.
import re r = re.compile( r'\btest\b' ) print r.findall("testy") print r.findall(" testy ") print r.findall(" test ") print r.findall("test")
That works great. Thanks for the tip! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
