Dear all, this is really driving me nuts and any help would be extremely appreciated.
I have a string that contains some numeric data. I want to isolate these data using re.match, as follows. bogus = "IFC(35m)" data = re.match(r'(\d+)',bogus) print data.group(1) I would expect to have "35" printed out to screen, but instead I get an error that the regular expression did not match: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Documents and Settings\Mattia\Desktop\Neeltje\read.py", line 20, in <module> print data.group(1) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' Note that the same holds if I look for "35" straight, instead of "\d +". If instead I look for "IFC" it works fine. That is, apparently re.match will match only up to the first non-alphanumeric character and ignore anything after a "(", "_", "[" and god knows what else. I am using Python 2.6 (r26:66721, latest stable version). Am I missing something very big and very important? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list