On Jul 21, 12:30 am, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Machin wrote: > >> try "[LRM]+$" (an L or an R or an M, one or more times, all the way to > >> the end of the string). > > > Ummm ... with the default flag settings, shouldn't that be \Z instead > > of $ ? > > Why? The OP was reading input from a user; whether he gets a trailing > newline or not depends on the input method, and $ does the right thing > for all normal input methods.
The goal as far as I can tell was to produce a pattern that matched one (maybe zero) or more instances of 'L', 'R', or 'M', and no other characters. >>> bool(re.match(r'[LRM]+\Z', 'MRL\n')) False >>> bool(re.match(r'[LRM]+$', 'MRL\n')) True >>> '\n' is an "other character". Perhaps you could explain what you mean by "$ does the right thing". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
