Actually using regular expressions for the first time. Is there something that allows you to take the union of two character sets, or append a character to a character set?
Say I want to replace 'disc' with 'disk', but only when 'disc' is a complete word (don't want to change 'discuss' to 'diskuss'.) The following seems almost right: [^a-zA-Z])disc[^a-zA-Z] The problem is that that doesn't match if 'disc' is at the start or end of the string. Of course I could just combine a few re's with |, but it seems like there should (or might?) be a way to simply append a \A to the first [^a-zA-Z] and a \Z to the second. -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
