On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:29:38 -0700, John Machin wrote: > Several problems:
Ciao John (and All partecipating in this thread), first of all I'm sorry for the delay but I was out for business. > (1) lose the vertical bars (as advised by others) (2) ALWAYS use a raw > string for regexes; your \s* will match on lower- case 's', not on > spaces right! thanks! > (3) why are you using findall on a pattern that ends in "$"? Yes, you are right, I started with a different need and then it changed over time... > (6) as remarked by others, you haven't said what you are trying to do; I reply here to all of you about such point: that's not important, although I appreciate very much your suggestions! My point was 'something that works in Perl, has problems in Python'. In respect to this, I thank Peter for his analysis. Probably Perl has a different pattern matching algorithm. Thanks again to all of you! Bye! -- Kirk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
