On Jul 1, 12:45 am, Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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'.
It *is* important; our point was 'you didn't define "works", and it was near-impossible (without transcribing your regex into verbose mode) to guess at what you suppose it might do sometimes'. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
